COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 241
Jasper County, Texas
Jasper County permitting is running about one permit a month over the trailing 90 days (3 total, versus 4 in the prior quarter).
Whitehead Resources, Ltd. leads with 5 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,650 ft (prior year: 10,500 ft); 20% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 20 active disposal and injection permits, with 2.38M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,036 drilling permits have been issued in Jasper County since 1977.
1,036 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 25, 2026
Watch Jasper CountyAlso: every Jasper County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 10
- permits issued, 365d
- +11%
- vs prior 365d (9)
- 4
- operators filing
- 20%
- horizontal
- 7,366
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 178
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 10 · prior 12 9(+11%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Whitehead Resources, Ltd. | 5 | 29 |
| Zarvona Energy LLC | 2 | 49 |
| Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | 2 | 10 |
| Paleo Oil Company LLC | 1 | 24 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Jasper County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Jasper 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 170 | 1 | 11,265 | 9,182–13,264 |
| Wilcox | 164 | 5 | 6,894 | 4,118–10,833 |
| Yegua | 135 | 8 | 6,545 | 3,084–8,222 |
| Midway | 73 | 0 | 9,004 | 6,790–11,135 |
| Frio | 72 | 8 | 4,118 | 2,072–5,600 |
| Taylor | 72 | 0 | 11,035 | 9,204–12,930 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 51 | 8 | 2,950 | 2,300–3,520 |
| Ozan | 44 | 0 | 10,600 | 9,023–12,651 |
| Jackson | 36 | 5 | 5,302 | 4,260–8,305 |
| Navarro | 29 | 0 | 10,581 | 9,599–12,175 |
| Woodbine | 23 | 1 | 13,136 | 13,031–13,384 |
| Pecan Gap | 20 | 0 | 11,125 | 9,766–12,805 |
| Vicksburg | 17 | 1 | 5,520 | 4,462–6,425 |
| Blossom | 15 | 0 | 11,210 | 8,451–11,959 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 20
- active UIC permits of 66
- 123K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 2.38M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Jasper 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918022 | Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 | Whitehead Resources, Ltd. | Predator #2 | 3,550 | 24130940 |
| 917866 | Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | Johnson #7 | 8,725 | 24130749 |
| 917827 | Aug 17, 2026 | Aug 14, 2026 | Davis Southern Operating Co LLC | Johnson #4 | 10,088 | 24130693 |
| 916795 | Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | Whitehead Resources, Ltd. | Predator #1 | 4,000 | 24130939 |
| 916794 | Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | Whitehead Resources, Ltd. | Aries #1 | 4,000 | 24130938 |
| 916358 | Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 9, 2026 | Zarvona Energy LLC | Gran Torino SN #1HRH | 15,000 | 24130937 |
| 915395 | May 19, 2026 | May 19, 2026 | Zarvona Energy LLC | Gran Torino SN #1HH | 15,000 | 24130936 |
| 913944 | Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 10, 2026 | Whitehead Resources, Ltd. | Odyssey #1 | 4,000 | 24130935 |
| 913550 | Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 20, 2026 | Whitehead Resources, Ltd. | Trojan #1 | 4,000 | 24130934 |
| 912444 | Jan 14, 2026 | Jan 14, 2026 | Paleo Oil Company LLC | Monarch SWD #1 | 5,300 | 24130933 |
Questions about Jasper County
How many drilling permits were issued in Jasper County in the last 12 months?
10 permits were issued in Jasper County in the last 12 months, up 11% from 9 in the 12 months before. 20% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Aug 25, 2026. 1,036 are on file since 1977.
Every Jasper County permit →Who is the most active operator in Jasper County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Whitehead Resources, Ltd. is the most active operator in Jasper County, with 5 of 10, followed by Zarvona Energy LLC (2) and Davis Southern Operating Co LLC (2). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Jasper County →How many oil and gas wells are in Jasper County?
831 wells are on file in Jasper County: 180 active and 429 plugged. 166 are horizontal, and 32 operators hold them.
Every well in Jasper County →How much oil and gas does Jasper County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Jasper County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Jasper County →How much water is injected in Jasper County?
2.4 million barrels of water were injected in Jasper County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 20 of the county's 66 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Jasper County →What formations are drilled in Jasper County?
Completion filings for wells in Jasper County report tops for 14 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Austin Chalk (170 wells, median top 11,265 ft), the Wilcox (164 wells, median top 6,894 ft), and the Yegua (135 wells, median top 6,545 ft).
Formations in Jasper County →What basin is Jasper County in?
Petrora lists Jasper County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Jasper County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Jasper County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Jasper 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/jasper?days=365, documented in the API reference.