COUNTIES · EAGLE FORD SHALE · DISTRICT 02 · CODE 239
Jackson County, Texas
Jackson County permitting is running 1.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (5 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Hilcorp Energy Company leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 5 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 6,900 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.
6,617 drilling permits have been issued in Jackson County since 1977.
6,617 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 29, 2026
Watch Jackson CountyAlso: every Jackson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 5
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 3
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,862
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 730
- 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 7 · prior 12 7(+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 | 867 |
| Britnic Oil & Gas, Inc. | 1 | 6 |
| Kaler Energy Corp. | 1 | 5 |
| Paloma Operating, LLC | 1 | 4 |
| Oxbow EP LLC | 1 | 3 |
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 Jackson is reported in 64 wells, median top 5,875 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 |
Questions about Jackson County
How many drilling permits were issued in Jackson County in the last 12 months?
7 permits were issued in Jackson County in the last 12 months, down 12% from 8 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 29, 2026. 6,617 are on file since 1977.
Every Jackson County permit →Who is the most active operator in Jackson County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Hilcorp Energy Company is the most active operator in Jackson County, with 3 of 7, followed by Britnic Oil & Gas, Inc. (1) and Kaler Energy Corp. (1). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Jackson County →How many oil and gas wells are in Jackson County?
5,506 wells are on file in Jackson County: 620 active, 3,199 plugged, and 2 permitted and not yet drilled. 35 are horizontal, and 61 operators hold them.
Every well in Jackson County →How much oil and gas does Jackson County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Jackson County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Jackson County →How much water is injected in Jackson County?
53.2 million barrels of water were injected in Jackson County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 188 of the county's 625 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Jackson County →What formations are drilled in Jackson County?
Completion filings for wells in Jackson County report tops for 11 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Frio (1,205 wells, median top 5,000 ft), the Catahoula (836 wells, median top 4,261 ft), and the Greta (375 wells, median top 5,071 ft).
Formations in Jackson County →What basin is Jackson County in?
Petrora lists Jackson County in the Eagle Ford Shale. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 02.
The Eagle Ford Shale →Have there been earthquakes in Jackson County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Jackson County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Jackson 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/jackson?days=90, documented in the API reference.