COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 161
Freestone County, Texas
Freestone County permitting is running 3.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (9 total, versus 9 in the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Hilcorp Energy Company leads with 27 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Freestone County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 13,038 ft (prior year: 12,880 ft); 9% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 32 active disposal and injection permits, with 5.49M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,101 drilling permits have been issued in Freestone County since 1977.
6,101 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 30, 2026
Watch Freestone CountyAlso: every Freestone County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 9
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (9)
- 3
- operators filing
- 11%
- horizontal
- 14,571
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 328
- 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 31 · prior 12 29(+7%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 27 | 1,579 |
| Comstock Oil & Gas, LLC | 3 | 3 |
| Pumping Services, Inc. | 1 | 2 |
| Expand Operating LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Freestone County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Expand Operating LLC1 permitOct 30, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Freestone County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Fewer than ten wells in Freestone County report the Goodland, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Peak | 2,985 | 53 | 8,546 | 7,883–9,089 |
| Pettit | 2,945 | 51 | 8,308 | 7,669–8,821 |
| Bossier | 2,688 | 37 | 11,848 | 10,935–12,676 |
| Cotton Valley | 2,113 | 39 | 10,870 | 10,150–12,196 |
| Rodessa | 1,340 | 18 | 7,955 | 7,056–8,230 |
| BMA | 1,211 | 29 | 7,511 | 7,136–7,900 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 663 | 0 | 7,930 | 7,151–8,130 |
| Buda | 321 | 1 | 5,125 | 4,490–5,885 |
| James Lime | 295 | 3 | 8,360 | 7,503–8,626 |
| Woodbine | 277 | 8 | 4,284 | 3,795–5,223 |
| Austin Chalk | 264 | 1 | 3,661 | 3,178–4,540 |
| Glen Rose | 259 | 2 | 6,480 | 5,742–7,225 |
| Paluxy | 79 | 1 | 5,961 | 5,176–6,863 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 55 | 3 | 4,185 | 3,620–4,967 |
| Nacatoch | 41 | 3 | 1,260 | 936–2,679 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 32
- active UIC permits of 91
- 320K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 5.49M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Freestone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919599 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Expand Operating LLC | Loco HCX #1H | 18,600 | 16134879 |
| 919433 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 20, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Hugh D. Whitaker Gas Unit #1 | 9,900 | 16131145 |
| 919012 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Wettermark Gas Unit #8 | 11,091 | 16134503 |
| 918851 | Sep 26, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Hale Unit #4 | 13,100 | 16134295 |
| 918775 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Hale Unit #3 | 12,620 | 16133142 |
| 918482 | Sep 13, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | William C. Glazener G.U. #8 | 12,822 | 16131806 |
| 917983 | Sep 4, 2026 | Sep 2, 2026 | Comstock Oil & Gas, LLC | Hegward Stebbins #1HH | 30,000 | 16134878 |
| 917966 | Aug 23, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Daugherty Gas Unit #1 | 12,065 | 16134062 |
| 917985 | Aug 23, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Coleman Gas Unit #3 | 10,938 | 16132912 |
| 917361 | Jul 29, 2026 | Jul 29, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | C. N. Williford #4 | 11,505 | 16131985 |
Questions about Freestone County
How many drilling permits were issued in Freestone County in the last 12 months?
32 permits were issued in Freestone County in the last 12 months, up 10% from 29 in the 12 months before. 9% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 30, 2026. 6,101 are on file since 1977.
Every Freestone County permit →Who is the most active operator in Freestone County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Hilcorp Energy Company is the most active operator in Freestone County, with 27 of 32, followed by Comstock Oil & Gas, LLC (3) and Pumping Services, Inc. (1). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Freestone County →How many oil and gas wells are in Freestone County?
4,753 wells are on file in Freestone County: 2,886 active, 833 plugged, and 4 permitted and not yet drilled. 112 are horizontal, and 43 operators hold them.
Every well in Freestone County →How much oil and gas does Freestone County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Freestone County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Freestone County →How much water is injected in Freestone County?
5.5 million barrels of water were injected in Freestone County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 32 of the county's 91 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Freestone County →What formations are drilled in Freestone County?
Completion filings for wells in Freestone County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Travis Peak (2,985 wells, median top 8,546 ft), the Pettit (2,945 wells, median top 8,308 ft), and the Bossier (2,688 wells, median top 11,848 ft).
Formations in Freestone County →What basin is Freestone County in?
Petrora lists Freestone County in the East Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 05.
The East Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Freestone County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Freestone County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Freestone 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/freestone?days=90, documented in the API reference.