COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 083
Coleman County, Texas
Coleman County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued July 23, 2025.
The county has 125 active disposal and injection permits, with 2.28M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
5,974 drilling permits have been issued in Coleman County since 1977.
5,974 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jul 23, 2025
Watch Coleman CountyAlso: every Coleman County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 30d
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- vs prior 30d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 1,016
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 2(-100%)
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
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| 500X Operating LLC | — | 178 |
| Seven Cross Operating LLC | — | 171 |
| Koko Skadi LLC | — | 95 |
| Bridwell Oil Co. | — | 90 |
| Delray Oil Inc. | — | 77 |
| Santa Anna Operating 3 LLC | — | 60 |
| Premier Royalties L.L.C. | — | 59 |
| Fortuna Exploration Inc. | — | 53 |
| Sojourner Drilling Corporation | — | 50 |
| Otex LLC | — | 49 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Coleman County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Coleman 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 |
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| Caddo | 381 | 0 | 2,640 | 1,198–3,978 |
| Palo Pinto | 346 | 1 | 2,919 | 2,304–3,156 |
| Marble Falls | 209 | 0 | 2,350 | 2,062–3,157 |
| Ellenburger | 173 | 0 | 4,251 | 2,985–4,463 |
| Coleman Junction | 107 | 6 | 750 | 506–1,197 |
| Gunsight | 74 | 0 | 2,168 | 613–2,396 |
| Saddle Creek | 64 | 0 | 1,627 | 546–1,803 |
| Duffer | 51 | 0 | 3,295 | 2,540–3,368 |
| Canyon | 42 | 1 | 2,376 | 757–2,862 |
| Mississippian | 40 | 0 | 3,520 | 2,589–4,301 |
| Tannehill | 22 | 1 | 1,254 | 830–1,538 |
| Barnett | 18 | 0 | 4,145 | 2,681–4,462 |
| Strawn | 18 | 0 | 1,359 | 611–3,398 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 125
- active UIC permits of 690
- 65.9K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.28M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Coleman County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 909396 | Jul 23, 2025 | Jul 23, 2025 | Tanglewood Oil & Gas Co. | Bouldin, Clifford #15 | 1,500 | 08336284 |
| 909395 | Jul 23, 2025 | Jul 23, 2025 | Tanglewood Oil & Gas Co. | DLB #2 | 1,500 | 08336283 |
| 903829 | Nov 12, 2024 | Nov 12, 2024 | Koko Skadi, LLC | King, Raye #3 | 3,600 | 08335691 |
| 903779 | Nov 12, 2024 | Nov 12, 2024 | Koko Skadi, LLC | King, Raye #4 | 3,800 | 08335708 |
| 903834 | Nov 7, 2024 | Nov 7, 2024 | Koko Skadi, LLC | Herring 'A' #1 | 4,500 | 08334733 |
| 903834 | Nov 7, 2024 | Nov 7, 2024 | Koko Skadi, LLC | Herring 'A' #1 | 3,699 | 08334733 |
| 900504 | Jun 18, 2024 | Jun 18, 2024 | Crosstex Services, L.L.C. | Burkett #1 | 3,400 | 08336282 |
| 899485 | May 8, 2024 | May 8, 2024 | Tanglewood Oil & Gas Co. | DLB #1 | 1,500 | 08336281 |
| 899484 | May 8, 2024 | May 8, 2024 | Tanglewood Oil & Gas Co. | Bouldin, Clifford #14 | 1,000 | 08336280 |
| 897438 | Feb 22, 2024 | Feb 22, 2024 | Oil Projects, LLC | M.E. Turner #1 | 2,999 | 08336142 |
Questions about Coleman County
How many drilling permits were issued in Coleman County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Coleman County in the last 12 months, down 100% from 6 in the 12 months before. The most recent was issued Jul 23, 2025. 5,974 are on file since 1977.
Every Coleman County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Coleman County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Coleman County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is 500X Operating LLC, with 178, followed by Seven Cross Operating LLC (171) and Koko Skadi LLC (95).
Operators in Coleman County →How many oil and gas wells are in Coleman County?
7,470 wells are on file in Coleman County: 626 active and 4,712 plugged. 9 are horizontal, and 81 operators hold them.
Every well in Coleman County →How much oil and gas does Coleman County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Coleman County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Coleman County →How much water is injected in Coleman County?
2.3 million barrels of water were injected in Coleman County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 125 of the county's 690 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Coleman County →What formations are drilled in Coleman County?
Completion filings for wells in Coleman County report tops for 13 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Caddo (381 wells, median top 2,640 ft), the Palo Pinto (346 wells, median top 2,919 ft), and the Marble Falls (209 wells, median top 2,350 ft).
Formations in Coleman County →What basin is Coleman County in?
Petrora lists Coleman County in the Barnett Shale and North Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7B.
The Barnett Shale and North Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Coleman County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Coleman County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Coleman 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/coleman?days=30, documented in the API reference.