COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 143
Erath County, Texas
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, 180d
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 0
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 →
| 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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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 |
Questions about Erath County
How many drilling permits were issued in Erath County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Erath County in the last 12 months. The most recent was issued Jun 13, 2023. 1,388 are on file since 1977.
Every Erath County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Erath County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Erath County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Eagleridge Operating LLC, with 103, followed by Hexagon Oil and Gas Inc. (77) and Crossbow Resources LLC (43).
Operators in Erath County →How many oil and gas wells are in Erath County?
1,324 wells are on file in Erath County: 178 active and 780 plugged. 215 are horizontal, and 39 operators hold them.
Every well in Erath County →How much oil and gas does Erath County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Erath County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Erath County →How much water is injected in Erath County?
39,022 barrels of water were injected in Erath County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 8 of the county's 38 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Erath County →What formations are drilled in Erath County?
Completion filings for wells in Erath County report tops for 10 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Marble Falls (370 wells, median top 4,124 ft), the Barnett (298 wells, median top 4,601 ft), and the Strawn (250 wells, median top 1,824 ft).
Formations in Erath County →What basin is Erath County in?
Petrora lists Erath 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 Erath County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Erath County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Erath 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/erath?days=180, documented in the API reference.