COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 237
Jack County, Texas
Jack County permitting is running 5.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (15 total, up 36% on the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP leads with 23 permits in the past 12 months, one of 12 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,999 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.
11,084 drilling permits have been issued in Jack County since 1977.
11,084 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 30, 2026
Watch Jack CountyAlso: every Jack County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 15
- permits issued, 90d
- +36%
- vs prior 90d (11)
- 7
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 5,105
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 1,061
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 51 · prior 12 62(-18%)
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 →
In Jack County the Strawn is reported in 872 wells, median top 3,300 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo | 2,155 | 53 | 4,620 | 4,237–5,257 |
| Marble Falls | 1,511 | 30 | 5,094 | 4,690–5,700 |
| Strawn | 872 | 32 | 3,300 | 1,261–4,065 |
| Bryson | 810 | 21 | 3,220 | 2,611–3,865 |
| Gunsight | 639 | 8 | 427 | 292–691 |
| Palo Pinto | 615 | 48 | 1,077 | 587–1,750 |
| Barnett | 595 | 24 | 5,760 | 5,180–6,065 |
| Atoka | 585 | 28 | 4,976 | 4,365–5,513 |
| 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 |
Questions about Jack County
How many drilling permits were issued in Jack County in the last 12 months?
55 permits were issued in Jack County in the last 12 months, down 10% from 61 in the 12 months before. 4% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 30, 2026. 11,084 are on file since 1977.
Every Jack County permit →Who is the most active operator in Jack County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP is the most active operator in Jack County, with 23 of 55, followed by FX Energy Operating, LLC (10) and Dry Creek Operating, LLC (6). 7 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Jack County →How many oil and gas wells are in Jack County?
12,866 wells are on file in Jack County: 2,260 active, 7,142 plugged, and 14 permitted and not yet drilled. 176 are horizontal, and 164 operators hold them.
Every well in Jack County →How much oil and gas does Jack County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Jack County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Jack County →How much water is injected in Jack County?
8.1 million barrels of water were injected in Jack County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 304 of the county's 1,335 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Jack County →What formations are drilled in Jack County?
Completion filings for wells in Jack County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Caddo (2,155 wells, median top 4,620 ft), the Marble Falls (1,511 wells, median top 5,094 ft), and the Strawn (872 wells, median top 3,300 ft).
Formations in Jack County →What basin is Jack County in?
Petrora lists Jack 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 Jack County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Jack County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Jack 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/jack?days=90, documented in the API reference.