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COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 113

Dallas County

Dallas County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued August 1, 2024.

352 drilling permits have been issued in Dallas County since 1979.

352 permits on file since 1979 · last issued Aug 1, 2024

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Also: every Dallas County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
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permits issued, 90d
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operators filing
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avg permitted depth, ft
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operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 18 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 60

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Operators by well inventory

No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.

OperatorPermitsWells
TEP Barnett USA LLC—43
Gha Barnett LLC—29
Eagleridge Operating LLC—2
Hess Jerry Operating Co.—2
Chesapeake Operating Inc.—2
Expro Engineering Inc.—2
Halliburton Energy Services Inc—1
Mobil Exp. & Prod. Services Inc.—1
Mobil Oil Corporation—1

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Dallas County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Dallas County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Dallas County the Viola is reported in 20 wells, median top 8,872 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Barnett79108,6237,922–9,388
Atoka60107,6196,624–8,903
Marble Falls33108,3638,363–8,922
Viola2008,8728,872–8,877

Beyond the permit record

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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
901407Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway #A 1HH9,50011330318
901407Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway Mipa Unit A #1HH9,50011330318
901406Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway #B 2HH9,50011330323
901406Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway Mipa Unit B #2HH9,50011330323
901405Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway #C 3HH9,50011330322
901405Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway Mipa Unit C #3HH9,50011330322
901404Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway #D 4HH9,50011330321
901404Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway Mipa Unit D #4HH9,50011330321
901404Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway Mipa Unit D #4HH9,50011330321
901402Aug 1, 2024Aug 1, 2024TEP Barnett USA, LLCWC Tollway #E 5HH9,50011330320

All Dallas County permits →

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/dallas?days=90, documented in the API reference.