COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 05 · CODE 223
Hopkins County
Hopkins County permitting is running 0.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (2 total, versus 2 in the prior quarter).
Bright Star Exploration, LLC leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
3 operators filed a first Hopkins County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,200 ft (prior year: 8,650 ft); 29% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 23 active disposal and injection permits, with 3.95M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
295 drilling permits have been issued in Hopkins County since 1977.
295 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 6, 2026
Watch Hopkins CountyAlso: every Hopkins County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 2
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (2)
- 1
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 8,200
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 128
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 12 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 17
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Bright Star Exploration, LLC | 3 | 0 |
| Pickton Gas Storage LLC | 2 | 141 |
| Energy Transfer Company | 2 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hopkins County came in the last year. 3 in total.
- Bright Star Exploration, LLC3 permitsNov 19, 2025 · new to Texas permits
- Pickton Gas Storage LLC2 permitsAug 6, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Energy Transfer Company2 permitsMay 12, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hopkins County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Hopkins County the Austin Chalk is reported in 66 wells, median top 3,838 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 66 | 0 | 3,838 | 2,832–3,983 |
| Woodbine | 56 | 1 | 4,272 | 3,370–4,752 |
| Paluxy | 48 | 2 | 5,150 | 4,457–6,326 |
| Pecan Gap | 37 | 0 | 2,385 | 1,285–2,597 |
| Sub-Clarksville | 34 | 1 | 3,976 | 3,882–4,036 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 32 | 0 | 7,670 | 6,880–7,771 |
| Smackover | 25 | 1 | 9,348 | 8,651–12,823 |
| Goodland | 23 | 0 | 4,703 | 4,379–6,207 |
| Nacatoch | 19 | 2 | 1,403 | 582–1,522 |
| Buda | 11 | 0 | 5,086 | 4,118–5,188 |
| Rodessa | 10 | 1 | 6,888 | 5,234–7,810 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 23
- active UIC permits of 100
- 98.5K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 3.95M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hopkins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917614 | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | Pickton Gas Storage LLC | Pickton Project Unit #2HH | 8,200 | 22330528 |
| 917612 | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | Pickton Gas Storage LLC | Pickton Project Unit #1HH | 8,200 | 22330527 |
| 915719 | May 27, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | RT 249 Texoma #1 | 400 | 22330526 |
| 915470 | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | RT 249 Texoma #1 | 330 | 22330525 |
| 911709 | Nov 19, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | Bright Star Exploration, LLC | Kempenaar #1 | 14,000 | 22330524 |
| 911707 | Nov 19, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | Bright Star Exploration, LLC | Willis W Stewart #1 | 11,100 | 22330068 |
| 911707 | Nov 19, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | Bright Star Exploration, LLC | Willis W Stewart #1 | 13,500 | 22330068 |
| 910212 | Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 4, 2025 | Saltwerx LLC | Cosmo #1 | 13,552 | 22330523 |
| 905206 | Jan 24, 2025 | Jan 24, 2025 | Valence Operating Company | Tabby (Alloc) #1HH | 8,500 | 22330522 |
| 905206 | Jan 24, 2025 | Jan 24, 2025 | Valence Operating Company | Malloy Unit #2HH | 8,500 | 22330522 |
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/hopkins?days=90, documented in the API reference.