COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 217
Hill County, Texas
Hill County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 19, 2025.
The county has 2 active disposal and injection permits, with 552K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
703 drilling permits have been issued in Hill County since 1977.
703 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 19, 2025
Watch Hill CountyAlso: every Hill 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 (2)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 2(-100%)
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 Hill County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hill 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnett | 260 | 0 | 8,084 | 7,253–8,532 |
| Marble Falls | 192 | 0 | 7,770 | 6,702–8,252 |
| Atoka | 117 | 0 | 4,506 | 3,193–6,982 |
| Strawn | 84 | 0 | 1,694 | 1,590–2,485 |
| Bend | 50 | 0 | 6,393 | 4,575–7,346 |
| Morrow | 30 | 0 | 7,961 | 7,011–8,467 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 26 | 0 | 1,650 | 1,425–1,675 |
| Austin Chalk | 18 | 0 | 626 | 572–698 |
| Big Saline | 18 | 0 | 7,388 | 7,230–7,582 |
| Ellenburger | 13 | 0 | 8,201 | 7,500–8,672 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 2
- active UIC permits of 11
- 50K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 552K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hill 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 907684 | May 19, 2025 | May 19, 2025 | Atmos Energy Corp., Mid-Tex Div. | L-32 #32 | 500 | 21730773 |
| 907684 | May 19, 2025 | May 19, 2025 | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | L-32 #32 | 500 | 21730773 |
| 878638 | Apr 1, 2022 | Apr 1, 2022 | Walker Operating Company | Maass #2 | 2,450 | 21730772 |
| 878637 | Apr 1, 2022 | Apr 1, 2022 | Walker Operating Company | Maass #1 | 2,450 | 21730771 |
| 864430 | Jul 29, 2020 | Jul 29, 2020 | Ephraim Trust | E. Stuckly #1 | 1,000 | 21730770 |
| 842851 | Jul 27, 2018 | Jul 27, 2018 | Energy Transfer Company | Etc MP 297.0 #1 | 600 | 21730769 |
| 833039 | Nov 16, 2017 | Nov 16, 2017 | Energy Transfer Company | Etc MD 294.9 #1 | 500 | 21730768 |
| 791100 | Sep 23, 2014 | Sep 23, 2014 | Bluestone Natural Res. II, LLC | Alma Unit #2HH | 8,400 | 21730766 |
| 791084 | Sep 23, 2014 | Sep 23, 2014 | Bluestone Natural Res. II, LLC | Brooks Unit #2HH | 8,700 | 21730767 |
| 704192 | Oct 26, 2010 | Oct 26, 2010 | Quicksilver Resources Inc. | Shelby Land Ltd Unit #1HH | 9,000 | 21730765 |
Questions about Hill County
How many drilling permits were issued in Hill County in the last 12 months?
0 permits were issued in Hill County in the last 12 months, down 100% from 2 in the 12 months before. The most recent was issued May 19, 2025. 703 are on file since 1977.
Every Hill County permit →Which operator has the most wells in Hill County?
No operator has filed a drilling permit in Hill County in the last 12 months. By wells on file, the largest is Eagleridge Operating LLC, with 193, followed by Formentera Operations LLC (26) and Frost Jack (8).
Operators in Hill County →How many oil and gas wells are in Hill County?
575 wells are on file in Hill County: 191 active, 158 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 265 are horizontal, and 8 operators hold them.
Every well in Hill County →How much oil and gas does Hill County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Hill County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Hill County →How much water is injected in Hill County?
551,758 barrels of water were injected in Hill County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 2 of the county's 11 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Hill County →What formations are drilled in Hill County?
Completion filings for wells in Hill County report tops for 10 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Barnett (260 wells, median top 8,084 ft), the Marble Falls (192 wells, median top 7,770 ft), and the Atoka (117 wells, median top 4,506 ft).
Formations in Hill County →What basin is Hill County in?
Petrora lists Hill County in the Barnett Shale and North Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 09.
The Barnett Shale and North Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Hill County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Hill County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Hill County →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/hill?days=365, documented in the API reference.