COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 499
Wood County
Wood County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 9 in the prior quarter).
Montare Operating, Ltd. leads with 9 permits in the past 12 months, one of 6 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,760 ft (prior year: 7,845 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 145 active disposal and injection permits, with 26.5M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,355 drilling permits have been issued in Wood County since 1977.
2,355 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 13, 2026
Watch Wood CountyAlso: every Wood County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 90d
- -78%
- vs prior 90d (9)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,388
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 322
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 61 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 23 · prior 12 18(+28%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Montare Operating, Ltd. | 9 | 20 |
| TTK Energy LLC | 2 | 25 |
| Atlas Operating LLC | 1 | 130 |
| Atlantis Oil Company, Inc. | 1 | 51 |
| Fair Oil, Ltd. | 1 | 12 |
| Strand Energy, L.C. | 1 | 6 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Wood County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Wood County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Wood County the Paluxy is reported in 208 wells, median top 6,310 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbine | 758 | 13 | 4,490 | 4,269–5,420 |
| Austin Chalk | 608 | 9 | 4,130 | 3,889–4,709 |
| Pecan Gap | 374 | 2 | 2,991 | 2,550–3,178 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 338 | 15 | 4,310 | 3,993–8,900 |
| Nacatoch | 335 | 3 | 2,235 | 1,688–2,416 |
| Paluxy | 208 | 7 | 6,310 | 6,171–7,332 |
| Eagle Ford | 174 | 1 | 4,259 | 4,096–4,475 |
| Buda | 91 | 5 | 5,200 | 4,936–9,565 |
| Taylor | 89 | 0 | 3,248 | 3,075–3,552 |
| Rodessa | 71 | 1 | 8,050 | 7,715–8,512 |
| Glen Rose | 68 | 4 | 6,802 | 6,559–10,183 |
| Goodland | 48 | 1 | 6,238 | 6,168–7,010 |
| Travis Peak | 46 | 3 | 8,728 | 8,532–11,511 |
| Blossom | 30 | 0 | 3,881 | 3,636–4,252 |
| Cotton Valley | 29 | 3 | 10,562 | 9,483–12,693 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 145
- active UIC permits of 524
- 713K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 26.5M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Wood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919179 | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 13, 2026 | Atlantis Oil Company, Inc. | Taylor, P. -A- #6 | 6,360 | 49930787 |
| 917790 | Aug 15, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | Fair Oil, Ltd. | McAllister #1 | 8,415 | 49931547 |
| 916760 | Aug 19, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | Montare Operating, Ltd. | Neuhoff (Buda-Woodbine) Unit #18ST | 9,760 | 49931731 |
| 916758 | Aug 19, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | Montare Operating, Ltd. | Neuhoff (Buda-Woodbine) Unit #10ST | 10,000 | 49931379 |
| 916758 | Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | Montare Operating, Ltd. | Neuhoff (Buda-Woodbine) Unit #10ST | 10,000 | 49931379 |
| 916760 | Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | Montare Operating, Ltd. | Neuhoff (Buda-Woodbine) Unit #18ST | 9,760 | 49931731 |
| 916761 | Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Montare Operating, Ltd. | Sasi Ranch Unit #4ST | 11,300 | 49932100 |
| 916759 | Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Montare Operating, Ltd. | Sasi Ranch Unit #2XT | 10,100 | 49931785 |
| 916761 | Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Montare Operating, Ltd. | Sasi Ranch Unit #4ST | 11,300 | 49932100 |
| 916759 | Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | Montare Operating, Ltd. | Sasi Ranch Unit #2XT | 10,100 | 49931785 |
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/wood?days=90, documented in the API reference.