COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 097
Cooke County, Texas
Cooke County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, down 50% 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 3,450 ft (prior year: 1,999 ft); 28% 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.
4,875 drilling permits have been issued in Cooke County since 1977.
4,875 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 28, 2026
Watch Cooke CountyAlso: every Cooke County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 32
- permits issued, 365d
- +39%
- vs prior 365d (23)
- 10
- operators filing
- 28%
- horizontal
- 6,811
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 411
- 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 32 · prior 12 23(+39%)
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
Permit types, 365d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 29 | 22 | 4,047 |
| Recompletion | 2 | 1 | 427 |
| Reenter | 1 | 0 | 160 |
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 →
| 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 |
Questions about Cooke County
How many drilling permits were issued in Cooke County in the last 12 months?
32 permits were issued in Cooke County in the last 12 months, up 39% from 23 in the 12 months before. 28% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 28, 2026. 4,875 are on file since 1977.
Every Cooke County permit →Who is the most active operator in Cooke County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Felderhoff Production Company is the most active operator in Cooke County, with 9 of 32, followed by Oleum Partners, LLC (6) and Oil Capital Operating, LLC (4). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Cooke County →How many oil and gas wells are in Cooke County?
8,722 wells are on file in Cooke County: 2,418 active, 4,605 plugged, and 17 permitted and not yet drilled. 267 are horizontal, and 59 operators hold them.
Every well in Cooke County →How much oil and gas does Cooke County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Cooke County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Cooke County →How much water is injected in Cooke County?
29.0 million barrels of water were injected in Cooke County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 471 of the county's 1,839 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Cooke County →What formations are drilled in Cooke County?
Completion filings for wells in Cooke County report tops for 14 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Strawn (620 wells, median top 1,428 ft), the Barnett (432 wells, median top 7,650 ft), and the Marble Falls (344 wells, median top 7,046 ft).
Formations in Cooke County →What basin is Cooke County in?
Petrora lists Cooke County in the Barnett Shale and North Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 09.
The Barnett Shale and North Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Cooke County?
TexNet located 1 earthquake of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Cooke County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M2.3.
Earthquakes in Cooke 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/cooke?days=365, documented in the API reference.