COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 155
Foard County, Texas
Foard County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Abb Oil Co., Inc. leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Foard County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,500 ft (prior year: 6,400 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 28 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.37M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
767 drilling permits have been issued in Foard County since 1977.
767 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 26, 2026
Watch Foard CountyAlso: every Foard County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 180d
- -50%
- vs prior 180d (2)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 6,300
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 173
- 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 2 · prior 12 2(+0%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Abb Oil Co., Inc. | 1 | 6 |
| S.B. Street Operating, Inc. | 1 | 2 |
| Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Foard County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Waggoner Operating, L.L.C.1 permitNov 19, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Foard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita-Albany | 117 | 0 | 905 | 855–1,458 |
| Canyon | 92 | 2 | 3,542 | 1,999–4,590 |
| Cisco | 77 | 0 | 3,742 | 1,893–4,542 |
| Coleman Junction | 71 | 0 | 2,031 | 1,154–2,616 |
| Caddo | 51 | 3 | 5,966 | 5,450–6,310 |
| Gunsight | 46 | 0 | 3,432 | 2,016–3,924 |
| Tannehill | 29 | 0 | 1,511 | 1,382–3,154 |
| Saddle Creek | 22 | 0 | 1,626 | 1,574–3,230 |
| Strawn | 21 | 0 | 5,422 | 3,865–5,680 |
| Bend | 16 | 1 | 6,021 | 5,443–6,455 |
| Mississippian | 11 | 0 | 5,905 | 5,273–6,610 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 28
- active UIC permits of 88
- 61.7K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.37M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Foard County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919586 | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 26, 2026 | Abb Oil Co., Inc. | Thompson #1 | 6,300 | 15530816 |
| 912490 | Jan 6, 2026 | Jan 6, 2026 | S.B. Street Operating, Inc. | L.K. Johnson 'A' #9N | 6,500 | 15530829 |
| 911822 | Nov 19, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner Nwsd #581NW | 9,000 | 15530828 |
| 908316 | Jun 2, 2025 | Jun 2, 2025 | Abb Oil Co., Inc. | Walser #2 | 6,400 | 15530827 |
| 898546 | Apr 4, 2024 | Apr 4, 2024 | Falcon Production LLC | Rasberry /6100 Caddo/ Unit #819HH | 6,200 | 15530826 |
| 898545 | Apr 4, 2024 | Apr 4, 2024 | Falcon Production LLC | Rasberry /6100 Caddo/ Unit #818HH | 6,200 | 15530825 |
| 898544 | Apr 4, 2024 | Apr 4, 2024 | Falcon Production LLC | Rasberry /6100 Caddo/ Unit #1302HH | 6,200 | 15500152 |
| 892910 | Aug 22, 2023 | Aug 22, 2023 | Roberts & Hammack Inc. | Jackson Adams #1 | 7,600 | 15530824 |
| 891695 | Jun 30, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | Abb Oil Co., Inc. | Walser #1 | 6,500 | 15530823 |
| 889177 | Mar 22, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 | W.T. Waggoner Estate, Inc. | Waggoner Nwna #541NN | 6,000 | 15530822 |
Questions about Foard County
How many drilling permits were issued in Foard County in the last 12 months?
3 permits were issued in Foard County in the last 12 months, up 200% from 1 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 26, 2026. 767 are on file since 1977.
Every Foard County permit →Who is the most active operator in Foard County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Abb Oil Co., Inc. is the most active operator in Foard County, with 1 of 3, followed by S.B. Street Operating, Inc. (1) and Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. (1). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Foard County →How many oil and gas wells are in Foard County?
835 wells are on file in Foard County: 204 active and 401 plugged. 1 is horizontal, and 15 operators hold them.
Every well in Foard County →How much oil and gas does Foard County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Foard County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Foard County →How much water is injected in Foard County?
1.4 million barrels of water were injected in Foard County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 28 of the county's 88 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Foard County →What formations are drilled in Foard County?
Completion filings for wells in Foard County report tops for 11 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Wichita-Albany (117 wells, median top 905 ft), the Canyon (92 wells, median top 3,542 ft), and the Cisco (77 wells, median top 3,742 ft).
Formations in Foard County →What basin is Foard County in?
Petrora lists Foard 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 Foard County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Foard County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Foard 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/foard?days=180, documented in the API reference.