COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 04 · CODE 247
Jim Hogg County
Jim Hogg County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
Bordertown Energy Resources, LLC leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 2 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Jim Hogg County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,575 ft (prior year: 6,812 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 8 active disposal and injection permits, with 273K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,210 drilling permits have been issued in Jim Hogg County since 1977.
2,210 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 30, 2026
Watch Jim Hogg CountyAlso: every Jim Hogg County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- —
- vs prior 90d (0)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 10,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 340
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 30 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 18 · prior 12 17(+6%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Bordertown Energy Resources, LLC | 1 | 121 |
| Charro Operating, L.L.C. | 1 | 7 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Jim Hogg County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Bordertown Energy Resources, LLC1 permitSep 30, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Jim Hogg County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Jim Hogg County the Cook Mountain is reported in 57 wells, median top 4,840 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen City | 218 | 2 | 9,420 | 5,700–9,988 |
| Yegua | 168 | 1 | 4,050 | 3,004–5,532 |
| Jackson | 112 | 1 | 2,723 | 1,978–4,193 |
| Cook Mountain | 57 | 0 | 4,840 | 4,688–5,061 |
| Wilcox | 56 | 0 | 9,828 | 8,988–11,398 |
| Frio | 29 | 0 | 1,600 | 1–2,582 |
| Catahoula | 23 | 0 | 950 | 1–3,898 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 17 | 0 | 800 | 1–2,658 |
| Vicksburg | 15 | 0 | 3,430 | 1,845–6,620 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 8
- active UIC permits of 197
- 12.2K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 273K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Jim Hogg 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918937 | Oct 2, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | Bordertown Energy Resources, LLC | Mestena Oil & Gas Company #J 11 | 10,000 | 24731730 |
| 913168 | Jan 29, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | Charro Operating, L.L.C. | Pena A43 #1 | 3,150 | 24732500 |
| 911147 | Oct 17, 2025 | Oct 17, 2025 | Home Petroleum Corp. | Dr. Jose A. Gutierrez, Jr. #1 | 5,500 | 24732499 |
| 911066 | Oct 14, 2025 | Oct 14, 2025 | Millennium Exploration Co. LLC | Lauro Lopez #18 | 8,125 | 24732234 |
| 898776 | Apr 24, 2024 | Apr 24, 2024 | New Century Exploration, Inc. | KMF #4 | 3,850 | 24732498 |
| 897683 | Mar 13, 2024 | Mar 13, 2024 | New Century Exploration, Inc. | KMF #3 | 3,850 | 24732497 |
| 894973 | Nov 20, 2023 | Nov 20, 2023 | New Century Exploration, Inc. | KMF #2 | 3,850 | 24732496 |
| 894973 | Nov 20, 2023 | Nov 20, 2023 | New Century Exploration, Inc. | KMF #2 | 3,850 | 24732496 |
| 894972 | Nov 20, 2023 | Nov 20, 2023 | New Century Exploration, Inc. | KMF #1 | 3,850 | 24732495 |
| 894972 | Nov 20, 2023 | Nov 20, 2023 | New Century Exploration, Inc. | KMF #1 | 3,850 | 24732495 |
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/jim-hogg?days=90, documented in the API reference.