COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 009
Archer County
Archer County permitting is running 3.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (11 total, down 50% on the prior quarter). 2 were issued in the past week.
Eagle Oil & Gas Co. leads with 11 permits in the past 12 months, one of 19 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Archer County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 5,000 ft (prior year: 4,999 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 525 active disposal and injection permits, with 13.4M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
11,475 drilling permits have been issued in Archer County since 1977.
11,475 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 27, 2026
Watch Archer CountyAlso: every Archer County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 11
- permits issued, 90d
- -50%
- vs prior 90d (22)
- 7
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 3,218
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 1,331
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 108 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 62 · prior 12 46(+35%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Archer County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Wbi Energy Midstream, LLC2 permitsAug 3, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Palmer Operating LLC1 permitJun 30, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Blackflat Oil Company LLC1 permitJun 15, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Archer County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Archer County the Caddo is reported in 709 wells, median top 4,825 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunsight | 1,926 | 50 | 1,194 | 686–1,607 |
| Thomas Sand | 767 | 17 | 1,112 | 730–1,410 |
| Caddo | 709 | 4 | 4,825 | 4,480–5,244 |
| Strawn | 443 | 36 | 3,685 | 2,860–4,303 |
| Mississippian | 325 | 2 | 5,185 | 4,997–5,348 |
| Palo Pinto | 203 | 1 | 3,170 | 2,751–3,350 |
| Cisco | 200 | 7 | 871 | 419–1,765 |
| Canyon | 172 | 20 | 2,470 | 1,814–3,564 |
| Ellenburger | 114 | 1 | 5,360 | 4,997–5,880 |
| Bryson | 107 | 25 | 4,236 | 3,787–4,690 |
| Barnett | 83 | 0 | 5,192 | 4,991–5,517 |
| KMA | 68 | 0 | 3,888 | 3,303–4,231 |
| Marble Falls | 44 | 1 | 4,986 | 4,850–5,358 |
| Smithwick | 40 | 0 | 4,692 | 4,508–5,076 |
| Bend | 10 | 0 | 5,018 | 4,724–5,472 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 525
- active UIC permits of 3,124
- 271K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 13.4M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Archer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919606 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Wilcox Energy Company LLC | Andrews, M.P. -C- #16 | 4,999 | 00943448 |
| 919601 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | Wilcox Energy Company LLC | Andrews, M.P. -C- #15 | 4,999 | 00943447 |
| 919258 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 | Plains Marketing, L.P. | Basin 326.125 #1 | 300 | 00943446 |
| 919426 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Olney Oil LLC | Richardson -A- #9 | 1,300 | 00943445 |
| 919427 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Guidance Oil Developers | Deitrich -C- #2C | 1,300 | 00943444 |
| 918290 | Sep 10, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | Borderline Operating Corp. | Andrews 'D' #1 | 5,999 | 00943443 |
| 918093 | Aug 28, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 | Borderline Operating Corp. | Andrews North #2 | 5,100 | 00943442 |
| 916011 | Aug 7, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | Wbi Energy Midstream, LLC | HF Sinclair #T012MP | 350 | 00943433 |
| 916015 | Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | Wbi Energy Midstream, LLC | HF Sinclair #T013MP | 350 | 00943437 |
| 917519 | Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | JMH Production, LLC | Andrews Longley #5 | 5,200 | 00943441 |
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/archer?days=90, documented in the API reference.