Produced water and disposal in Henderson County
Every injection and disposal permit in the county, what each well is permitted to take, what its operator reported, and who is reporting daily. Earthquakes in the area →
Henderson County has 23 active injection and disposal wells, 21 of them permitted for disposal, with 118,861 barrels a day of permitted capacity.
Operators reported 2.0 million barrels injected on H-10 filings in the twelve months to September 2025, down 12% on the year before, about 5% of what the permits allow.
Highmark Energy Operating, LLC is the largest injector in the county, with 880,168 barrels reported across 3 active wells.
- 23
- active injection wells, 21 for disposal
- 119K
- bbl/d permitted capacity
- 2.03M
- bbl reported, H-10 year to Sep 2025 -12%
- 5%
- of permitted capacity used
- 98
- UIC permits on file, all time
Reported injection, by month
H-10 FILINGS · TEN YEARS TO SEP 2025
Last 12 months 2,030,965 · prior 12 2,297,191(-12%)
Who injects here
Operators with active permits in the county, by reported H-10 volume over the settled year.
| Operator | Reported, bbl | Active wells | Capacity bbl/d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark Energy Operating, LLC | 880K | 3 | 30K |
| Enr Operating, LLC | 874K | 1 | 6K |
| Urban Oil & Gas Group, LLC | 211K | 4 | 26.7K |
| Maximus Operating, Ltd. | 29.9K | 1 | 500 |
| Atlas Operating LLC | 11.8K | 1 | 500 |
| HD Operating Co, LLC | 11.5K | 1 | 3K |
| Smackover Oil Treaters, Ltd. | 6.5K | 2 | 12K |
| United Oil & Shale LLC | 6K | 1 | 20K |
| Tactical Operating Company, LLC | — | 3 | 14.7K |
| Supreme Energy Company, Inc. | — | 1 | 4K |
| Gemini Energy, Inc. | — | 2 | 1.11K |
| O'Ryan Oil and Gas | — | 2 | 300 |
| Atlantis Oil Company, Inc. | — | 1 | 50 |
Injection permits
127 UIC PERMITS · 23 ACTIVE · PAGE 2 OF 2
Active permits first, by reported volume, then canceled, plugged, and never-activated permits.
| Well | Operator | Status | Purpose | Reported, bbl | bbl/d permitted | Zone, ft | Permitted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cayuga N. W. /Rodessa/ Unit #10W | Perryman Operating Company | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | 500 | 7,447–7,450 | Feb 1, 1969 |
| Cayuga N. W. /Rodessa/ Unit #13W | Perryman Operating Company | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | 500 | 7,422–7,428 | Feb 3, 1969 |
| Cayuga N. W. /Rodessa/ Unit #14W | Perryman Operating Company | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | 500 | 7,436–7,444 | Feb 3, 1969 |
| — #2 | Speller & Associates, Inc. | Plugged | Enhanced recovery | — | 500 | 4,160–4,185 | Nov 13, 1969 |
| Fairway/James Lime/Unit #5497 | Hunt Oil Company | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | 350 | 9,920–9,990 | Feb 27, 1996 |
| E K Gladney -B- #1 | Lone Star Gas Co. | Canceled | Disposal | — | 350 | 4,370–4,400 | Dec 1, 1976 |
| Arnold, Bert #1 | Wideman, Ronald | Canceled | Disposal | — | 300 | 3,241–3,290 | Apr 9, 1968 |
| Daniel, Aubrey A., Unit #1D | Crystal Oil and Land Co. | Canceled | Disposal | — | 50 | 885–927 | — |
| Clanton, P.D. #D 1 | Shell Western E&P Inc. | Canceled | Disposal | — | 2 | 4,410–4,685 | Jun 7, 1978 |
| Cayuga N. W. /Rodessa/ Unit #5W | Perryman Operating Company | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | — | — | — |
| Cayuga N. W. /Rodessa/ Unit #6 | Perryman Operating Company | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | — | — | — |
| Fairway /James Lime/ Unit #4452 | Hunt Oil Company | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | — | — | Jun 13, 1980 |
| Wathen, B. H. #1D | Ward Oil Co. | Canceled | Disposal | — | — | 4,285 | — |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #1 R | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Canceled | Storage | — | — | 7,659–7,734 | — |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #2 R | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Canceled | Storage | — | — | 7,652–7,766 | — |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #6 R | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Canceled | Storage | — | — | 7,708–7,792 | — |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #7 R | Lone Star Gas Co. | Canceled | Storage | — | — | 7,718–7,770 | — |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #1 B | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Canceled | Storage | — | — | 7,542–7,571 | — |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #2 B | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Canceled | Storage | — | — | 7,580–7,610 | — |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #3 B | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Plugged | Storage | — | — | 7,578–7,598 | — |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #14 B | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Canceled | Storage | — | — | 7,542–7,577 | — |
| Fairway /James Lime/ Unit #447 | Vanguard Operating, LLC | Canceled | Disposal | — | — | — | Jun 13, 1980 |
| Dscc #4 | Hill, Bill | Canceled | Disposal | — | — | — | Jun 17, 1982 |
| Farley (Smackover) Unit #401 | Global Natural Resources Corp. | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | — | — | Dec 22, 1982 |
| Bauguss #1 | Wideman, Ronald | Canceled | Disposal | — | — | 4,926–4,960 | Aug 17, 1983 |
| E.S.S.C. #5 | US Energy Holdings, LLC | Canceled | Enhanced recovery | — | — | 4,064 | Sep 8, 1986 |
| Tri-Cities Gas Storage Unit #23B | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Canceled | Storage | — | — | 7,556–7,594 | Feb 16, 1994 |
Latest disposal drilling permits
W-1 drilling permits in the county tagged as produced-water disposal.
| Issued | Permit | Operator | Lease / well |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2000 | 493495 | Stroud Petroleum, Inc. | Spi-SWD #1 21330798 |
About this data
RRC UIC well master and H-10 injection reports, settled through Sep 2025; TexNet daily injection for the last settled month; disposal permit tags from Petrora's sector classifier.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/water/tx/henderson, documented in the API reference.