COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 161
Freestone County
Freestone County permitting is running 2.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (8 total, down 20% on the prior quarter).
Hilcorp Energy Company leads with 27 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 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 12,995 ft (prior year: 12,608 ft); 10% 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.
6,100 drilling permits have been issued in Freestone County since 1977.
6,100 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 20, 2026
Watch Freestone CountyAlso: every Freestone County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 8
- permits issued, 90d
- -20%
- vs prior 90d (10)
- 2
- operators filing
- 13%
- horizontal
- 14,067
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 327
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 45 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 35 · prior 12 32(+9%)
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 | 1,151 |
| Comstock Oil & Gas, LLC | 3 | 1 |
| Pumping Services, Inc. | 1 | 1 |
| 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 Smackover, 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 |
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.