COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 239
Jackson County
Jackson County permitting is running 1.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (4 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Hilcorp Energy Company leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Jackson County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,700 ft (prior year: 6,762 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 188 active disposal and injection permits, with 53.2M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,616 drilling permits have been issued in Jackson County since 1977.
6,616 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 16, 2026
Watch Jackson CountyAlso: every Jackson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 2
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,919
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 729
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 87 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 23 · prior 12 23(+0%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Hilcorp Energy Company | 3 | 672 |
| Kaler Energy Corp. | 1 | 5 |
| Britnic Oil & Gas, Inc. | 1 | 3 |
| Paloma Operating, LLC | 1 | 2 |
| Oxbow EP LLC | 1 | 1 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Jackson County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Britnic Oil & Gas, Inc.1 permitOct 29, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Jackson County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Jackson County the Cook Mountain is reported in 12 wells, median top 8,975 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frio | 1,205 | 24 | 5,000 | 3,200–5,618 |
| Catahoula | 836 | 22 | 4,261 | 2,788–4,320 |
| Greta | 375 | 10 | 5,071 | 3,708–5,283 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 321 | 1 | 1,650 | 1–4,471 |
| Yegua | 162 | 0 | 7,334 | 6,129–8,919 |
| Vicksburg | 128 | 0 | 5,580 | 4,677–7,570 |
| Jackson | 64 | 0 | 5,875 | 4,970–6,301 |
| Wilcox | 29 | 0 | 10,020 | 9,056–10,614 |
| Anahuac | 26 | 0 | 4,696 | 4,268–5,925 |
| Cook Mountain | 12 | 0 | 8,975 | 7,061–10,483 |
| Queen City | 12 | 0 | 8,639 | 8,550–8,650 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 188
- active UIC permits of 625
- 2.66M
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 53.2M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Jackson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919549 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Britnic Oil & Gas, Inc. | Brooking, G.T. #45 | 7,637 | 23933451 |
| 919215 | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | West Ranch (41-a/98-a Cons) Unit #2193 | 7,200 | 23933833 |
| 918718 | Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | West Ranch A #2075 | 6,474 | 23933804 |
| 918708 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Hilcorp Energy Company | West Ranch A #600 | 6,500 | 23933580 |
| 918645 | Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 16, 2026 | Kaler Energy Corp. | Stafford Unit #1 | 11,500 | 23933972 |
| 912394 | Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | Paloma Operating, LLC | Lorenzen #2 | 6,900 | 23933971 |
| 912077 | Dec 15, 2025 | Dec 15, 2025 | Oxbow EP LLC | Yaussi B #X 1 | 6,300 | 23933970 |
| 910334 | Sep 18, 2025 | Sep 18, 2025 | Wagner Oil Company | L Ranch D Unit #1A | 8,600 | 23933436 |
| 909939 | Aug 21, 2025 | Aug 21, 2025 | Mamerow Energy Corp | Hess #2A | 6,718 | 23931455 |
| 909713 | Aug 8, 2025 | Aug 8, 2025 | Beard Oil Company, LLC | Maude K. Hillyer #2 | 6,815 | 23901645 |
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/jackson?days=90, documented in the API reference.