COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 253
Jones County
Jones County permitting is running 1.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (4 total, versus 2 in the prior quarter).
Energy Transfer Company leads with 4 permits in the past 12 months, one of 5 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Jones County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 1,960 ft (prior year: 3,700 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 167 active disposal and injection permits, with 5.54M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
5,802 drilling permits have been issued in Jones County since 1977.
5,802 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 14, 2026
Watch Jones CountyAlso: every Jones County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4
- permits issued, 90d
- +100%
- vs prior 90d (2)
- 4
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 2,318
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 1,030
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 95 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 24 · prior 12 26(-8%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Energy Transfer Company | 4 | 0 |
| Star Production, Inc. | 3 | 18 |
| Sojourner Drilling Corporation | 1 | 199 |
| Wbi Energy Midstream, LLC | 1 | 0 |
| Delta Oil & Gas Ltd. | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Jones County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Wbi Energy Midstream, LLC1 permitAug 5, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Jones County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Jones County the Palo Pinto is reported in 217 wells, median top 4,150 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coleman Junction | 356 | 18 | 1,800 | 1,100–2,160 |
| Saddle Creek | 258 | 0 | 1,946 | 1,733–2,724 |
| Palo Pinto | 217 | 0 | 4,150 | 3,449–4,399 |
| Strawn | 207 | 1 | 4,576 | 4,404–4,848 |
| Gunsight | 191 | 2 | 2,704 | 2,308–3,175 |
| Tannehill | 186 | 6 | 1,906 | 1,610–2,483 |
| Canyon | 132 | 1 | 4,022 | 3,352–4,410 |
| Ellenburger | 71 | 1 | 5,322 | 5,135–5,440 |
| Cisco | 57 | 0 | 3,456 | 2,848–3,652 |
| Caddo | 51 | 1 | 5,162 | 4,650–5,284 |
| Leonard | 44 | 4 | 450 | 400–1,360 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 167
- active UIC permits of 940
- 221K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 5.54M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Jones 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918503 | Sep 16, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | Abilene 2.0 SE CR 306 & FM 1982 #01 | 420 | 25335754 |
| 917739 | Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 | Star Production, Inc. | Baucum #3 | 3,500 | 25335753 |
| 917626 | Aug 9, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | Delta Oil & Gas Ltd. | Pittard #1 | 5,000 | 25335752 |
| 916025 | Aug 7, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | Wbi Energy Midstream, LLC | HF Sinclair #T015MP | 350 | 25335751 |
| 915812 | May 27, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | Star Production, Inc. | Hall 40 #1 | 3,500 | 25335750 |
| 915796 | May 27, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | Star Production, Inc. | Baucum #2 | 3,750 | 25335749 |
| 914725 | Apr 21, 2026 | Apr 21, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | TP #1.75 #1 | 400 | 25335748 |
| 914543 | Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 20, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | TP #9.75 #1 | 400 | 25335747 |
| 914547 | Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 20, 2026 | Energy Transfer Company | TP #9 #1 | 400 | 25335746 |
| 912099 | Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 11, 2025 | Sojourner Drilling Corporation | Swann, W.D. #10 | 5,000 | 25335745 |
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/jones?days=90, documented in the API reference.