COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 457
Tyler County, Texas
Tyler County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued August 3, 2026.
Davis Southern Operating Co LLC leads with 7 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Tyler County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,500 ft (prior year: 9,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 20 active disposal and injection permits, with 5.4M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,100 drilling permits have been issued in Tyler County since 1977.
1,100 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 3, 2026
Watch Tyler CountyAlso: every Tyler County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 3
- permits issued, 180d
- -50%
- vs prior 180d (6)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 6,967
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 194
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 9 · prior 12 9(+0%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | 7 | 37 |
| Geosouthern Operating II, LLC | 1 | 1 |
| Magnum Operating, LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Tyler County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Magnum Operating, LLC1 permitMar 11, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Tyler County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 253 | 7 | 7,493 | 5,734–8,739 |
| Yegua | 206 | 11 | 5,048 | 3,595–5,672 |
| Austin Chalk | 169 | 0 | 13,118 | 12,362–13,957 |
| Frio | 97 | 11 | 3,050 | 1,971–4,222 |
| Midway | 84 | 0 | 10,465 | 9,876–11,270 |
| Navarro | 71 | 0 | 12,230 | 11,539–12,770 |
| Vicksburg | 67 | 6 | 3,801 | 2,362–4,705 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 53 | 8 | 2,306 | 919–3,260 |
| Taylor | 47 | 0 | 12,778 | 12,030–13,309 |
| Pecan Gap | 27 | 0 | 12,393 | 11,794–12,889 |
| Woodbine | 26 | 0 | 13,472 | 11,218–14,739 |
| Ozan | 18 | 0 | 12,567 | 12,129–13,075 |
| Jackson | 11 | 0 | 4,220 | 4,020–4,980 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 20
- active UIC permits of 69
- 112K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 5.4M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Tyler County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- largest
Monthly counts, magnitudes, and every recent event in the area →
Events are not tagged with a county; this counts M2+ events inside the bounding box of the county’s located permits, padded 0.1°. About TexNet →
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 916529 | Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | Williams #1 | 7,000 | 45730841 |
| 917161 | Jul 24, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Sittin on GO #2 | 6,400 | 45730833 |
| 917315 | Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 21, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Honky Tonkin #2 | 7,500 | 45730836 |
| 915062 | Apr 30, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Sittin on GO #3 | 6,097 | 45730839 |
| 915016 | Apr 23, 2026 | Apr 23, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Country Boy #2 | 6,250 | 45730830 |
| 914705 | Apr 14, 2026 | Apr 14, 2026 | Geosouthern Operating II, LLC | Dogwood SWD #1 | 6,000 | 45730933 |
| 914227 | Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Cats Back #1 | 8,950 | 45730781 |
| 914038 | Mar 11, 2026 | Mar 11, 2026 | Magnum Operating, LLC | Buckner #1 | 9,990 | 45730940 |
| 911984 | Dec 8, 2025 | Dec 8, 2025 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Good #1 | 6,500 | 45730812 |
| 907506 | May 9, 2025 | May 9, 2025 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | BP Cats Back #2 | 6,000 | 45730804 |
Questions about Tyler County
How many drilling permits were issued in Tyler County in the last 12 months?
9 permits were issued in Tyler County in the last 12 months, level with 9 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Aug 3, 2026. 1,100 are on file since 1977.
Every Tyler County permit →Who is the most active operator in Tyler County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Davis Southern Operating Co LLC is the most active operator in Tyler County, with 7 of 9, followed by Geosouthern Operating II, LLC (1) and Magnum Operating, LLC (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Tyler County →How many oil and gas wells are in Tyler County?
840 wells are on file in Tyler County: 282 active, 417 plugged, and 3 permitted and not yet drilled. 172 are horizontal, and 26 operators hold them.
Every well in Tyler County →How much oil and gas does Tyler County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Tyler County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Tyler County →How much water is injected in Tyler County?
5.4 million barrels of water were injected in Tyler County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 20 of the county's 69 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Tyler County →What formations are drilled in Tyler County?
Completion filings for wells in Tyler County report tops for 13 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Wilcox (253 wells, median top 7,493 ft), the Yegua (206 wells, median top 5,048 ft), and the Austin Chalk (169 wells, median top 13,118 ft).
Formations in Tyler County →What basin is Tyler County in?
Petrora lists Tyler County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Tyler County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Tyler County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Tyler County →About this data
Drilling permits from the RRC OGA049M master and daily daf420 files, rebuilt nightly into per-county figures; windows are on the date issued. Disposal from UIC permits and H-10 reports at the last settled month; earthquakes from the TexNet catalog inside the county's located-permit footprint.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/counties/tx/tyler?days=180, documented in the API reference.