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
Watch Hansford CountyAlso: every Hansford County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 365d
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- vs prior 365d (1)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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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%)
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 Hansford County came in the last year. None.
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 →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrow | 396 | 1 | 6,906 | 6,581–7,497 |
| Douglas | 326 | 0 | 4,966 | 4,730–5,178 |
| Brown Dolomite | 296 | 0 | 3,034 | 2,802–3,211 |
| Tonkawa | 174 | 0 | 5,350 | 5,136–5,597 |
| Marmaton | 168 | 0 | 6,142 | 5,797–6,519 |
| Cleveland | 134 | 0 | 6,245 | 5,800–6,539 |
| Pennsylvanian | 125 | 0 | 4,160 | 4,003–4,380 |
| Kansas City | 119 | 0 | 5,958 | 5,231–6,280 |
| Mississippian | 106 | 0 | 7,706 | 7,052–8,141 |
| Atoka | 71 | 0 | 6,692 | 6,444–7,076 |
| Des Moines | 69 | 0 | 5,950 | 5,649–6,462 |
| Wolfcamp | 65 | 0 | 3,152 | 2,825–4,118 |
| Oswego | 57 | 1 | 6,135 | 5,947–6,602 |
| Chester | 54 | 1 | 7,432 | 7,102–8,015 |
| Red Cave | 52 | 0 | 1,850 | 1,720–2,009 |
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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 907000 | May 16, 2025 | May 16, 2025 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Thor A #1 | 7,248 | 19531808 |
| 886544 | Dec 22, 2022 | Dec 22, 2022 | Amarillo Exploration, Inc. | Alexander #2JG | 7,600 | 19531949 |
| 885797 | Dec 1, 2022 | Dec 1, 2022 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Hart -C- #1 | 6,100 | 19530122 |
| 884069 | Sep 21, 2022 | Sep 21, 2022 | King Operating Corporation | Porter 33V #2 | 9,000 | 19531958 |
| 883595 | Sep 7, 2022 | Sep 7, 2022 | King Operating Corporation | Ayres 79V #3 | 9,000 | 19531957 |
| 879277 | Apr 26, 2022 | Apr 26, 2022 | Bracken Operating, L.L.C. | Holt 162 #1 | 7,100 | 19531938 |
| 873503 | Oct 14, 2021 | Oct 14, 2021 | Bracken Operating, L.L.C. | Collins, Tom O. #1 | 5,000 | 19531154 |
| 863638 | May 15, 2020 | May 15, 2020 | Laddex, Ltd. | Clawson #114 | 8,750 | 19531911 |
| 859225 | Nov 21, 2019 | Nov 21, 2019 | J-Brex Company | Collard #175 | 6,250 | 19531956 |
| 857763 | Oct 9, 2019 | Oct 9, 2019 | Saguaro Petroleum, LLC | Bernstein #1 | 9,300 | 19531955 |
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=365, documented in the API reference.