COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 237
Jack County
Jack County permitting is running 4.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (14 total, up 40% on the prior quarter).
Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP leads with 23 permits in the past 12 months, one of 11 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 3,700 ft (prior year: 3,600 ft); 4% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 304 active disposal and injection permits, with 8.1M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
11,082 drilling permits have been issued in Jack County since 1977.
11,082 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 19, 2026
Watch Jack CountyAlso: every Jack County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 14
- permits issued, 90d
- +40%
- vs prior 90d (10)
- 6
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 5,048
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 1,061
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 115 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 55 · prior 12 61(-10%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Jack County came in the last year. None.
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recompletion | 8 | 4 | 1,095 |
| Drill | 6 | 7 | 9,288 |
| Reenter | 1 | 0 | 275 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Jack 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo | 2,154 | 51 | 4,620 | 4,237–5,258 |
| Marble Falls | 1,511 | 29 | 5,094 | 4,690–5,700 |
| Strawn | 872 | 32 | 3,300 | 1,261–4,065 |
| Bryson | 809 | 20 | 3,219 | 2,611–3,863 |
| Gunsight | 639 | 8 | 427 | 292–691 |
| Palo Pinto | 615 | 48 | 1,077 | 587–1,750 |
| Barnett | 595 | 23 | 5,760 | 5,180–6,065 |
| Atoka | 584 | 27 | 4,977 | 4,364–5,514 |
| Bend | 338 | 8 | 4,834 | 4,368–5,449 |
| Ellenburger | 286 | 10 | 5,942 | 5,458–6,388 |
| Mississippian | 183 | 2 | 5,232 | 4,719–5,684 |
| Canyon | 59 | 6 | 2,710 | 1,608–3,476 |
| Forestburg | 44 | 1 | 5,875 | 5,234–6,129 |
| Cisco | 20 | 0 | 690 | 300–1,800 |
| Smithwick | 17 | 2 | 4,410 | 3,620–4,688 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 304
- active UIC permits of 1,335
- 496K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 8.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Jack 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919795 | Nov 1, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP | Coca Cola #14 | 6,390 | 23739335 |
| 919647 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Clear Brooke Ranches, LLC | House #2 | 5,100 | 23740731 |
| 919185 | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | B.O.L.D. Oil and Gas, LLC | Brown, Lupton #8S | 2,400 | 23702589 |
| 919051 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP | Sewell A #2 | 6,013 | 23739267 |
| 919019 | Oct 10, 2026 | Oct 8, 2026 | Dry Creek Operating, LLC | South Briscoe #8C | 5,300 | 23740730 |
| 919030 | Oct 9, 2026 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP | Cherryhomes, Mike #D 11 | 6,355 | 23738890 |
| 919053 | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | FX Energy Operating, LLC | Myers #1 | 6,025 | 23739716 |
| 918511 | Sep 16, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 | Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP | Simpson #1 | 5,702 | 23739636 |
| 918084 | Sep 12, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP | Cherryhomes, Mike #D 43 | 6,327 | 23738969 |
| 918385 | Sep 10, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP | Brown, Lupton 'B' #O 1 | 3,000 | 23740729 |
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/jack?days=90, documented in the API reference.