COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 205
Hartley County
Hartley County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 15, 2026.
Fortay, Inc. leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,000 ft (prior year: 6,500 ft); 100% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 10 active disposal and injection permits, with 8.58M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M2.1.
426 drilling permits have been issued in Hartley County since 1977.
426 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 15, 2026
Watch Hartley CountyAlso: every Hartley County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 30d
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- vs prior 30d (0)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 92
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 27 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 16 · prior 12 18(-11%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Fortay, Inc. | 2 | 29 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hartley County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hartley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Dolomite | 110 | 4 | 3,547 | 2,938–3,895 |
| Pennsylvanian | 64 | 3 | 5,461 | 4,750–7,098 |
| Granite Wash | 62 | 3 | 6,106 | 4,468–6,629 |
| Wolfcamp | 55 | 2 | 3,704 | 3,443–4,714 |
| Panhandle Lime | 48 | 0 | 3,033 | 2,756–3,661 |
| Tubb | 47 | 2 | 2,232 | 2,029–2,793 |
| Des Moines | 30 | 2 | 6,559 | 6,460–8,287 |
| Red Cave | 30 | 1 | 2,307 | 2,199–2,637 |
| Glorieta | 27 | 0 | 1,850 | 1,035–2,075 |
| Canyon | 21 | 0 | 6,326 | 5,731–6,518 |
| Moore County Lime | 16 | 0 | 3,440 | 3,210–3,614 |
| Wichita-Albany | 10 | 0 | 3,598 | 3,515–3,643 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 10
- active UIC permits of 24
- 57.4K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 8.58M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hartley County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M2.1
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 915647 | May 15, 2026 | May 15, 2026 | Fortay, Inc. | Squire Brown #1HH | 9,000 | 20530351 |
| 915647 | May 15, 2026 | May 15, 2026 | Fortay, Inc. | Squire Brown #1HH | 9,000 | 20530351 |
| 907234 | Apr 9, 2025 | Apr 9, 2025 | DDD Exploration, Inc. | Walker Ranch #4045 | 6,500 | 20530302 |
| 903780 | Nov 4, 2024 | Nov 4, 2024 | DDD Exploration, Inc. | Thompson E #5 | 6,500 | 20530424 |
| 898619 | May 8, 2024 | May 8, 2024 | Fortay, Inc. | Bryant, Malcolm #9 | 9,000 | 20530310 |
| 899034 | Apr 23, 2024 | Apr 23, 2024 | DDD Exploration, Inc. | The Circle 8 Ranch #4601 | 6,500 | 20530423 |
| 899034 | Apr 23, 2024 | Apr 23, 2024 | DDD Exploration, Inc. | The Circle 8 Ranch #4601 | 6,500 | 20530423 |
| 897031 | Feb 2, 2024 | Feb 2, 2024 | DDD Exploration, Inc. | Thompson E #4 | 6,500 | 20530422 |
| 885596 | Nov 16, 2022 | Nov 16, 2022 | DDD Exploration, Inc. | Thompson E #3 | 6,500 | 20530421 |
| 883038 | Aug 17, 2022 | Aug 17, 2022 | DDD Exploration, Inc. | Harvey Unit #1 | 6,500 | 20530420 |
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/hartley?days=30, documented in the API reference.