COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 467
Van Zandt County
Van Zandt County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
Basa Resources, Inc. leads with 9 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Van Zandt County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 3,000 ft (prior year: 3,242 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 39 active disposal and injection permits, with 26.3M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,330 drilling permits have been issued in Van Zandt County since 1977.
1,330 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 11, 2026
Watch Van Zandt CountyAlso: every Van Zandt County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 2,994
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 197
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 37 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 24 · prior 12 14(+71%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Basa Resources, Inc. | 9 | 526 |
| Black Gold Industries Oprtng LLC | 1 | 0 |
| TAM2 Squared Operating, LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Van Zandt County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Black Gold Industries Oprtng LLC1 permitJun 19, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Van Zandt County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Fewer than ten wells in Van Zandt County report the Goodland, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 387 | 18 | 2,232 | 2,092–2,702 |
| Pecan Gap | 342 | 18 | 1,670 | 1,420–1,869 |
| Woodbine | 262 | 13 | 2,602 | 2,376–3,950 |
| Nacatoch | 128 | 7 | 1,184 | 976–1,370 |
| Rodessa | 88 | 3 | 6,235 | 4,720–8,208 |
| Wilcox | 71 | 5 | 300 | 1–400 |
| James Lime | 67 | 0 | 5,274 | 5,017–8,501 |
| Navarro | 62 | 1 | 1,140 | 910–1,219 |
| Paluxy | 50 | 3 | 6,206 | 4,680–6,646 |
| Travis Peak | 39 | 0 | 8,536 | 6,404–8,824 |
| Buda | 37 | 0 | 4,075 | 3,287–5,405 |
| Pettit | 37 | 0 | 7,400 | 5,268–8,736 |
| Glen Rose | 33 | 1 | 6,607 | 4,826–7,224 |
| Midway | 30 | 0 | 385 | 309–842 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 20 | 3 | 2,776 | 2,642–3,898 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 39
- active UIC permits of 209
- 402K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 26.3M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Van Zandt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917376 | Aug 13, 2026 | Aug 11, 2026 | Basa Resources, Inc. | Central Van Woodbine Unit #437 | 2,994 | 46700979 |
| 916482 | Jun 19, 2026 | Jun 19, 2026 | Black Gold Industries Oprtng LLC | Robinson #1 | 8,900 | 46731190 |
| 913960 | Apr 16, 2026 | Apr 16, 2026 | Basa Resources, Inc. | Blake, R. S. #30 | 3,000 | 46730664 |
| 914126 | Apr 13, 2026 | Apr 13, 2026 | Basa Resources, Inc. | Blake, R. S. #35 | 3,000 | 46730744 |
| 914131 | Apr 13, 2026 | Apr 13, 2026 | Basa Resources, Inc. | Blake, R. S. #33 | 3,000 | 46730722 |
| 914224 | Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | Basa Resources, Inc. | Tunnell, I. P. 300 #18 | 1,600 | 46730902 |
| 913828 | Mar 4, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | Basa Resources, Inc. | Blake, R. S. #36 | 3,000 | 46730745 |
| 913691 | Feb 27, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | Basa Resources, Inc. | York, W. A. 13 #20 | 3,050 | 46730968 |
| 913503 | Feb 19, 2026 | Feb 19, 2026 | Basa Resources, Inc. | Blake, R. S. #11 | 2,930 | 46700454 |
| 911962 | Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | Basa Resources, Inc. | Maxfield, A. G. 38 #3 | 3,000 | 46700213 |
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/van-zandt?days=90, documented in the API reference.