COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 097
Cooke County
Cooke County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, down 45% on the prior quarter).
Felderhoff Production Company leads with 9 permits in the past 12 months, one of 10 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Cooke County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 3,400 ft (prior year: 1,999 ft); 29% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 471 active disposal and injection permits, with 29M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.3.
4,874 drilling permits have been issued in Cooke County since 1977.
4,874 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 20, 2026
Watch Cooke CountyAlso: every Cooke County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 6
- permits issued, 90d
- -45%
- vs prior 90d (11)
- 3
- operators filing
- 33%
- horizontal
- 4,333
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 411
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 90 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 39 · prior 12 32(+22%)
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 Cooke County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Oil Capital Operating, LLC4 permitsJun 9, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Atoka Energy LLC2 permitsJul 6, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Kodiak Oil & Gas, Inc.1 permitMar 24, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Cooke County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Cooke County the Pennsylvanian is reported in 81 wells, median top 1,666 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawn | 620 | 27 | 1,428 | 792–3,159 |
| Barnett | 432 | 1 | 7,650 | 7,033–7,956 |
| Marble Falls | 344 | 1 | 7,046 | 6,464–7,401 |
| Caddo | 236 | 1 | 5,647 | 3,659–6,790 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 185 | 0 | 725 | 550–1,310 |
| Forestburg | 160 | 0 | 7,542 | 7,236–7,785 |
| Ellenburger | 158 | 1 | 1,975 | 1,330–5,885 |
| Atoka | 116 | 1 | 5,180 | 3,632–6,484 |
| Canyon | 112 | 8 | 906 | 500–2,069 |
| Viola | 102 | 0 | 8,703 | 8,367–8,838 |
| Pennsylvanian | 81 | 3 | 1,666 | 731–7,747 |
| Goodland | 44 | 0 | 462 | 384–616 |
| Walnut | 18 | 0 | 4,742 | 4,551–4,916 |
| Granite Wash | 14 | 0 | 5,689 | 4,272–6,428 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 471
- active UIC permits of 1,839
- 392K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 29M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Cooke County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.3
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919730 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Felderhoff Production Company | Schniederjan #1 | 3,500 | 09734874 |
| 919329 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Oleum Partners, LLC | Opllc 4-6H Gas Unit #6HH | 8,900 | 09734873 |
| 919328 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Oleum Partners, LLC | Opllc 4-5H Gas Unit #5HH | 8,900 | 09734872 |
| 918033 | Sep 13, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | V & H Oil, L.P. | Vestal #37 | 1,999 | 09734871 |
| 917947 | Sep 6, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | Felderhoff Production Company | Trubenbach #1 | 2,100 | 09734870 |
| 917947 | Aug 22, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | Felderhoff Production Company | Trubenbach #1 | 2,100 | 09734870 |
| 917640 | Aug 9, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | Felderhoff Production Company | Klement, Robert #1 | 1,999 | 09734869 |
| 917384 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Triple G Well Service, Inc. | SMITH#1 #12 | 2,000 | 09734868 |
| 916997 | Sep 12, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | Oil Capital Operating, LLC | Clegg NW #1HH | 17,600 | 09734867 |
| 916997 | Jul 10, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | Oil Capital Operating, LLC | Clegg 1 #1 | 16,500 | 09734867 |
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/cooke?days=90, documented in the API reference.