COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 195

Hansford County

Hansford County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 16, 2025.

The county has 11 active disposal and injection permits, with 837K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

2,012 drilling permits have been issued in Hansford County since 1977.

2,012 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 16, 2025

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Also: every Hansford 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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operators filing
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avg permitted depth, ft
279
operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Permits issued by month

LAST 34 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE

Last 12 months 15 · prior 12 21(-29%)

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Operators by well inventory

No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Hansford County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hansford County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Hansford County the Tonkawa is reported in 174 wells, median top 5,350 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Morrow39616,9066,581–7,497
Douglas32604,9664,730–5,178
Brown Dolomite29603,0342,802–3,211
Tonkawa17405,3505,136–5,597
Marmaton16806,1425,797–6,519
Cleveland13406,2455,800–6,539
Pennsylvanian12504,1604,003–4,380
Kansas City11905,9585,231–6,280
Mississippian10607,7067,052–8,141
Atoka7106,6926,444–7,076
Des Moines6905,9505,649–6,462
Wolfcamp6503,1522,825–4,118
Oswego5716,1355,947–6,602
Chester5417,4327,102–8,015
Red Cave5201,8501,720–2,009

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

11
active UIC permits of 66
57.8K
permitted bbl/day, active
837K
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hansford 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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
907000May 16, 2025May 16, 2025Scout Energy Management LLCThor A #17,24819531808
886544Dec 22, 2022Dec 22, 2022Amarillo Exploration, Inc.Alexander #2JG7,60019531949
885797Dec 1, 2022Dec 1, 2022Scout Energy Management LLCHart -C- #16,10019530122
884069Sep 21, 2022Sep 21, 2022King Operating CorporationPorter 33V #29,00019531958
883595Sep 7, 2022Sep 7, 2022King Operating CorporationAyres 79V #39,00019531957
879277Apr 26, 2022Apr 26, 2022Bracken Operating, L.L.C.Holt 162 #17,10019531938
873503Oct 14, 2021Oct 14, 2021Bracken Operating, L.L.C.Collins, Tom O. #15,00019531154
863638May 15, 2020May 15, 2020Laddex, Ltd.Clawson #1148,75019531911
859225Nov 21, 2019Nov 21, 2019J-Brex CompanyCollard #1756,25019531956
857763Oct 9, 2019Oct 9, 2019Saguaro Petroleum, LLCBernstein #19,30019531955

All Hansford County permits →

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/hansford?days=90, documented in the API reference.