COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 251
Johnson County, Texas
Johnson County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued June 3, 2026.
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Johnson County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 65 ft (prior year: 6,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 18 active disposal and injection permits, with 23.2M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,203 drilling permits have been issued in Johnson County since 1978.
6,203 permits on file since 1978 · last issued Jun 3, 2026
Watch Johnson CountyAlso: every Johnson County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- 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 1 · prior 12 3(-67%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Halliburton Energy Services, Inc | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Johnson County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Halliburton Energy Services, Inc1 permitJun 3, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Johnson County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Johnson County the Bend is reported in 901 wells, median top 5,287 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnett | 3,722 | 0 | 7,113 | 6,353–7,918 |
| Atoka | 2,405 | 0 | 5,977 | 3,558–6,854 |
| Marble Falls | 2,393 | 0 | 6,989 | 5,876–7,639 |
| Bend | 901 | 0 | 5,287 | 4,808–6,255 |
| Strawn | 889 | 0 | 1,802 | 1,074–3,104 |
| Big Saline | 743 | 0 | 6,776 | 5,923–7,209 |
| Hood | 597 | 0 | 5,793 | 5,270–7,243 |
| Smithwick | 157 | 0 | 6,888 | 5,934–7,217 |
| Ellenburger | 123 | 0 | 7,298 | 6,594–8,494 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 58 | 0 | 1,678 | 1,048–2,068 |
| Morrow | 54 | 0 | 7,660 | 6,653–8,206 |
| Caddo | 45 | 0 | 4,300 | 3,951–5,688 |
| Duffer | 30 | 0 | 5,257 | 5,162–6,219 |
| Forestburg | 17 | 0 | 7,443 | 6,852–8,002 |
| Viola | 17 | 0 | 8,367 | 6,977–8,682 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 18
- active UIC permits of 40
- 494K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 23.2M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Johnson County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 916101 | Jun 3, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | Halliburton Energy Services, Inc | Three Tracts #1 | 65 | 25134599 |
| 904790 | Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | Delta Oil & Gas Ltd. | Brice Unit #6 | 6,000 | 25134598 |
| 904781 | Dec 19, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | Delta Oil & Gas Ltd. | Acu Unit #6 | 6,000 | 25134597 |
| 904579 | Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 13, 2024 | Upp Operating, LLC | Ferguson Foundation SWD #2 | 13,500 | 25134596 |
| 879836 | May 11, 2022 | May 11, 2022 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Sanderford #5HH | 9,000 | 25134595 |
| 879799 | May 11, 2022 | May 11, 2022 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Sanderford #4HH | 9,000 | 25134594 |
| 879772 | May 11, 2022 | May 11, 2022 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Sanderford #3HH | 9,000 | 25134593 |
| 879769 | May 11, 2022 | May 11, 2022 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Sanderford #2HH | 9,000 | 25134592 |
| 875543 | Mar 9, 2022 | Mar 9, 2022 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Vardeman Unit #5HH | 8,500 | 25134591 |
| 875519 | Mar 9, 2022 | Mar 9, 2022 | Sage Natural Resources LLC | Vardeman Unit #4HH | 8,500 | 25134590 |
Questions about Johnson County
How many drilling permits were issued in Johnson County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Johnson County in the last 12 months, down 67% from 3 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Jun 3, 2026. 6,203 are on file since 1978.
Every Johnson County permit →Who is the most active operator in Johnson County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc is the most active operator in Johnson County, with 1 of 1. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Johnson County →How many oil and gas wells are in Johnson County?
4,454 wells are on file in Johnson County: 2,578 active, 817 plugged, and 2 permitted and not yet drilled. 3,855 are horizontal, and 22 operators hold them.
Every well in Johnson County →How much oil and gas does Johnson County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Johnson County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Johnson County →How much water is injected in Johnson County?
23.2 million barrels of water were injected in Johnson County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 18 of the county's 40 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Johnson County →What formations are drilled in Johnson County?
Completion filings for wells in Johnson County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Barnett (3,722 wells, median top 7,113 ft), the Atoka (2,405 wells, median top 5,977 ft), and the Marble Falls (2,393 wells, median top 6,989 ft).
Formations in Johnson County →What basin is Johnson County in?
Petrora lists Johnson 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 Johnson County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Johnson County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Johnson 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/johnson?days=90, documented in the API reference.