COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 253
Jones County, Texas
Jones County permitting is running about one permit a month over the trailing 90 days (3 total, versus 3 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 →
- 10
- permits issued, 365d
- -9%
- vs prior 365d (11)
- 5
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 2,272
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 1,030
- 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 11(-9%)
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 | 21 |
| Sojourner Drilling Corporation | 1 | 226 |
| 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 →
| 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 |
Questions about Jones County
How many drilling permits were issued in Jones County in the last 12 months?
10 permits were issued in Jones County in the last 12 months, down 9% from 11 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 14, 2026. 5,802 are on file since 1977.
Every Jones County permit →Who is the most active operator in Jones County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Energy Transfer Company is the most active operator in Jones County, with 4 of 10, followed by Star Production, Inc. (3) and Sojourner Drilling Corporation (1). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Jones County →How many oil and gas wells are in Jones County?
6,684 wells are on file in Jones County: 697 active, 4,420 plugged, and 5 permitted and not yet drilled. 4 are horizontal, and 83 operators hold them.
Every well in Jones County →How much oil and gas does Jones County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Jones County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Jones County →How much water is injected in Jones County?
5.5 million barrels of water were injected in Jones County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 167 of the county's 940 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Jones County →What formations are drilled in Jones County?
Completion filings for wells in Jones County report tops for 11 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Coleman Junction (356 wells, median top 1,800 ft), the Saddle Creek (258 wells, median top 1,946 ft), and the Palo Pinto (217 wells, median top 4,150 ft).
Formations in Jones County →What basin is Jones County in?
Petrora lists Jones County in the Barnett Shale and North Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 7B.
The Barnett Shale and North Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Jones County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Jones County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Jones 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/jones?days=365, documented in the API reference.