COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 197
Hardeman County
Hardeman County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 2 in the prior quarter).
Trio Consulting & Management,llc leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Hardeman County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,700 ft (prior year: 6,500 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 29 active disposal and injection permits, with 2.09M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,994 drilling permits have been issued in Hardeman County since 1977.
1,994 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 12, 2026
Watch Hardeman CountyAlso: every Hardeman County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (2)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 8,850
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 297
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 68 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 18 · prior 12 34(-47%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Trio Consulting & Management,llc | 4 | 42 |
| Buffco Production Inc. | 3 | 29 |
| PWR Operating, LLC | 1 | 45 |
| Dimock Operating Company | 1 | 12 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hardeman County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- PWR Operating, LLC1 permitFeb 20, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hardeman County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Hardeman County the Palo Pinto is reported in 270 wells, median top 5,617 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Pinto | 270 | 9 | 5,617 | 5,115–5,898 |
| Barnett | 219 | 8 | 7,930 | 7,590–8,220 |
| Chester | 192 | 1 | 7,942 | 7,653–8,250 |
| Mississippian | 152 | 0 | 7,796 | 7,541–8,168 |
| Canyon | 128 | 4 | 5,038 | 3,986–5,671 |
| Strawn | 63 | 4 | 5,890 | 2,670–6,406 |
| Coleman Junction | 57 | 4 | 2,230 | 234–2,914 |
| Ellenburger | 44 | 1 | 8,272 | 8,058–8,827 |
| Cisco | 42 | 2 | 3,423 | 2,670–4,002 |
| Caddo | 33 | 0 | 6,312 | 6,172–6,565 |
| Atoka | 32 | 0 | 6,766 | 5,986–7,396 |
| Permian (undifferentiated) | 29 | 2 | 3,310 | 2,437–3,310 |
| Morrow | 24 | 0 | 7,473 | 7,355–7,676 |
| Bend | 15 | 0 | 7,430 | 7,225–7,549 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 29
- active UIC permits of 101
- 97.7K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.09M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hardeman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918525 | Oct 14, 2026 | Oct 12, 2026 | Dimock Operating Company | Grange #1 | 9,000 | 19731778 |
| 918992 | Oct 4, 2026 | Oct 2, 2026 | Trio Consulting & Management,llc | Stepp 110 #4 | 8,700 | 19731815 |
| 915577 | May 13, 2026 | May 13, 2026 | Trio Consulting & Management,llc | Holbrook #1 | 9,000 | 19731814 |
| 915577 | May 13, 2026 | May 13, 2026 | Trio Consulting & Management,llc | Holbrook #1 | 9,000 | 19731814 |
| 913347 | Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 20, 2026 | PWR Operating, LLC | Melear, W. A. #102 | 8,230 | 19700252 |
| 912525 | Jan 13, 2026 | Jan 13, 2026 | Buffco Production Inc. | Turner #2 | 7,839 | 19731661 |
| 912431 | Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | Trio Consulting & Management,llc | Section 72 #1 | 8,900 | 19731805 |
| 911767 | Nov 20, 2025 | Nov 20, 2025 | Buffco Production Inc. | Turner 'A' #2 | 7,850 | 19731732 |
| 911762 | Nov 17, 2025 | Nov 17, 2025 | Buffco Production Inc. | Judd 'A' #1 | 7,830 | 19731715 |
| 907926 | May 22, 2025 | May 22, 2025 | Sutherland Energy Co., LLC | Qeru #10 | 6,500 | 19730578 |
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/hardeman?days=90, documented in the API reference.