COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 459
Upshur County, Texas
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 →
- 1
- permits issued, 180d
- -67%
- vs prior 180d (3)
- 1
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 8,396
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 182
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 4 · prior 12 10(-60%)
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 | 5 |
| Tanos Exploration IV, LLC | 1 | 3 |
| 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 →
| 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Questions about Upshur County
How many drilling permits were issued in Upshur County in the last 12 months?
4 permits were issued in Upshur County in the last 12 months, down 60% from 10 in the 12 months before. 100% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Jun 26, 2026. 1,412 are on file since 1977.
Every Upshur County permit →Who is the most active operator in Upshur County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Sabine Energy Inc. is the most active operator in Upshur County, with 1 of 4, followed by Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation (1) and Tanos Exploration IV, LLC (1). 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Upshur County →How many oil and gas wells are in Upshur County?
1,900 wells are on file in Upshur County: 744 active, 682 plugged, and 4 permitted and not yet drilled. 38 are horizontal, and 36 operators hold them.
Every well in Upshur County →How much oil and gas does Upshur County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Upshur County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Upshur County →How much water is injected in Upshur County?
102 million barrels of water were injected in Upshur County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 42 of the county's 74 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Upshur County →What formations are drilled in Upshur County?
Completion filings for wells in Upshur County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Travis Peak (528 wells, median top 7,966 ft), the Cotton Valley (430 wells, median top 9,728 ft), and the Pettit (401 wells, median top 7,778 ft).
Formations in Upshur County →What basin is Upshur County in?
Petrora lists Upshur County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 06.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Upshur County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Upshur County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Upshur 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/upshur?days=180, documented in the API reference.