COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 459
Upshur County
Upshur County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued June 26, 2026.
Sabine Energy Inc. leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Upshur County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 11,200 ft (prior year: 11,650 ft); 100% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 42 active disposal and injection permits, with 102M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,412 drilling permits have been issued in Upshur County since 1977.
1,412 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jun 26, 2026
Watch Upshur CountyAlso: every Upshur County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 0
- permits issued, 90d
- -100%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 182
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 27 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 22 · prior 12 24(-8%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Sabine Energy Inc. | 1 | 20 |
| Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation | 1 | 6 |
| Tanos Exploration IV, LLC | 1 | 2 |
| Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc. | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Upshur County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.1 permitJun 26, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Upshur County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Upshur County the Rodessa is reported in 312 wells, median top 7,200 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Peak | 528 | 8 | 7,966 | 7,696–8,152 |
| Cotton Valley | 430 | 8 | 9,728 | 9,200–11,614 |
| Pettit | 401 | 0 | 7,778 | 7,440–7,960 |
| Bossier | 381 | 0 | 11,034 | 10,553–11,194 |
| Rodessa | 312 | 1 | 7,200 | 6,926–7,456 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 140 | 1 | 6,902 | 6,720–7,070 |
| Paluxy | 140 | 8 | 5,290 | 5,114–5,440 |
| Woodbine | 118 | 6 | 3,698 | 3,537–3,842 |
| BMA | 115 | 0 | 7,110 | 6,854–7,280 |
| Taylor | 77 | 0 | 10,614 | 2,989–10,884 |
| Haynesville | 70 | 0 | 11,626 | 11,475–11,730 |
| Austin Chalk | 61 | 0 | 3,684 | 3,326–4,470 |
| James Lime | 58 | 0 | 7,584 | 7,260–7,739 |
| Glen Rose | 50 | 1 | 5,801 | 5,491–6,365 |
| Nacatoch | 45 | 3 | 1,996 | 1,802–2,116 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 42
- active UIC permits of 74
- 798K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 102M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Upshur County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 916718 | Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc. | Pembrook Unit #1716HH | 8,396 | 45931510 |
| 913802 | Mar 4, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | Tanos Exploration IV, LLC | Tuel-Bogel GU 2 (AW) #1HH | 10,400 | 45931509 |
| 912835 | Feb 23, 2026 | Feb 23, 2026 | Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation | Hill LC-Breyer B (AW) #2HH | 12,000 | 45931508 |
| 912835 | Feb 23, 2026 | Feb 23, 2026 | Sabine Energy Inc. | Hill LC-Breyer B (AW) #2HH | 12,000 | 45931508 |
| 908643 | Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 23, 2025 | Tischer Energy, LLC | Highground #2HH | 11,100 | 45931507 |
| 908640 | Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | Tischer Energy, LLC | Highground #1HH | 11,100 | 45931506 |
| 908340 | Jun 13, 2025 | Jun 13, 2025 | Tanos Exploration IV, LLC | Barber-Gunn (AW) #1HH | 10,774 | 45931505 |
| 905724 | Mar 5, 2025 | Mar 5, 2025 | Sabine Energy Inc. | Hill LC-Breyer a (AW) #1HH | 11,300 | 45931504 |
| 905724 | Mar 5, 2025 | Mar 5, 2025 | Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation | Hill LC-Breyer a (AW) #1HH | 11,300 | 45931504 |
| 905392 | Mar 4, 2025 | Mar 4, 2025 | Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation | Reynolds B (AW) #2HH | 12,000 | 45931502 |
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/upshur?days=90, documented in the API reference.