COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 143
Erath County
Erath County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued June 13, 2023.
The county has 8 active disposal and injection permits, with 39K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,388 drilling permits have been issued in Erath County since 1977.
1,388 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jun 13, 2023
Watch Erath CountyAlso: every Erath County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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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 7 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 7
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Erath County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Erath County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Erath County the Ellenburger is reported in 66 wells, median top 4,248 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Marble Falls | 370 | 0 | 4,124 | 3,229–4,624 |
| Barnett | 298 | 0 | 4,601 | 3,750–5,032 |
| Strawn | 250 | 0 | 1,824 | 1,517–2,579 |
| Big Saline | 112 | 0 | 3,660 | 3,253–3,792 |
| Atoka | 97 | 0 | 2,864 | 2,104–3,882 |
| Duffer | 85 | 0 | 3,838 | 3,216–4,450 |
| Bend | 84 | 0 | 4,086 | 3,100–4,463 |
| Ellenburger | 66 | 0 | 4,248 | 3,764–4,786 |
| Hood | 27 | 0 | 4,346 | 4,009–4,701 |
| Caddo | 15 | 0 | 3,092 | 2,070–3,246 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
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- active UIC permits of 38
- 23.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 39K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Erath 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 |
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| 891216 | Jun 13, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | Greenhaw, Morris R. | Hogtown-Moore Unit #3109 | 3,052 | 14331196 |
| 875567 | Dec 30, 2021 | Dec 30, 2021 | Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP | Fambro 288 #3 | 3,755 | 14331269 |
| 867479 | Mar 10, 2021 | Mar 10, 2021 | Energy Transfer Company | MLV-19-2 #2 | 351 | 14331416 |
| 866017 | Nov 16, 2020 | Nov 16, 2020 | Energy Transfer Company | LSX-MLV-19 #1 | 321 | 14331415 |
| 848109 | Dec 21, 2018 | Dec 21, 2018 | Prasinos Storage I LLC | Bluebonnet #1 | 3,000 | 14331414 |
| 843394 | Aug 13, 2018 | Aug 13, 2018 | Stephens & Johnson Operating Co. | Herrera #5 | 3,485 | 14330991 |
| 829082 | Aug 8, 2017 | Aug 8, 2017 | Sunoco Pipeline L.P. | MP 317.75 #1CP | 350 | 14331413 |
| 816309 | Jun 16, 2016 | Jun 16, 2016 | Petrocoastal, Inc. | EC #1 | 4,000 | 14331412 |
| 802338 | Jan 6, 2015 | Jan 6, 2015 | Quidnet Energy Inc. | Stockstill #1 A | 3,300 | 14330971 |
| 744335 | Aug 8, 2012 | Aug 8, 2012 | Blackwater Oil & Gas Corporation | Hallmark B #2 | 3,875 | 14331044 |
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/erath?days=90, documented in the API reference.