COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 251
Johnson County
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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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (1)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 101
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 14 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 26
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 →
Fewer than ten wells in Johnson County report the Mississippian, so it is below this table's cutoff. 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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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.