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COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 221

Hood County

Hood County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued October 5, 2015.

The county has 9 active disposal and injection permits, with 6.93M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

2,005 drilling permits have been issued in Hood County since 1977.

2,005 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 5, 2015

Watch Hood County

Also: every Hood County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
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permits issued, 90d
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vs prior 90d (0)
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operators filing
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horizontal
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avg permitted depth, ft
180
operators, all time

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

Operators by well inventory

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

OperatorPermitsWells
Diversified Production LLC—424
Eagleridge Operating LLC—217
XTO Energy Inc.—90
BKV North Texas LLC—57
EOG Resources Inc.—42
TEP Barnett USA LLC—31
Westridge Oil & Gas Properties—26
Smith Pipe of Abilene—26
E.G. Operating—25
Devon Energy Production Co L.P.—24

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Hood 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 Hood County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Hood County the Strawn is reported in 150 wells, median top 1,362 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Barnett85305,7474,961–6,198
Marble Falls77105,1864,579–5,620
Atoka29003,6922,458–5,798
Hood23505,0824,792–5,416
Strawn15001,362225–3,231
Bend9604,7903,892–5,382
Big Saline7704,5753,710–5,591
Base Cretaceous (marker)730600325–800
Caddo6001,051633–3,818
Duffer5704,6864,171–5,231
Ellenburger3605,9685,282–6,510
Smithwick2605,0214,209–6,297
Morrow1605,8275,332–6,036

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

9
active UIC permits of 32
225K
permitted bbl/day, active
6.93M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hood County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

Latest permits

NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
810075Oct 5, 2015Oct 5, 2015Enervest Operating, L.L.C.Stank Unit #1H9,00022131068
793052Aug 30, 2014Aug 30, 2014Quicksilver Resources Inc.San Raphael Unit #R 6HH9,00022131980
793050Aug 30, 2014Aug 30, 2014Quicksilver Resources Inc.San Raphael Unit #R 7HH9,00022131979
793049Aug 30, 2014Aug 30, 2014Quicksilver Resources Inc.San Raphael Unit #R 8HH9,00022131978
793053Aug 28, 2014Aug 28, 2014Quicksilver Resources Inc.San Raphael Unit #R 5HH9,00022131981
789109Jul 19, 2014Jul 19, 2014Premier Natural Resources Ii,llcTomlinson #3HH10,00022131975
788198Jul 17, 2014Jul 17, 2014Premier Natural Resources Ii,llcWest Granbury Unit #4HH9,00022131974
787240Jun 28, 2014Jun 28, 2014Premier Natural Resources Ii,llcWest Granbury #3HH9,00022131973
785267May 21, 2014May 21, 2014Enervest Operating, L.L.C.Odom #6HH9,00022131972
781410Apr 9, 2014Apr 9, 2014Enervest Operating, L.L.C.Odom #5HH9,00022131971

All Hood 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/hood?days=90, documented in the API reference.