COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 363
Palo Pinto County
Palo Pinto County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, after a quiet prior quarter).
FX Energy Operating, LLC leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Palo Pinto County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 3,508 ft (prior year: 1,900 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 106 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.62M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,061 drilling permits have been issued in Palo Pinto County since 1977.
6,061 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 13, 2026
Watch Palo Pinto CountyAlso: every Palo Pinto 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
- 1,800
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 670
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 45 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 18 · prior 12 29(-38%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| FX Energy Operating, LLC | 2 | 34 |
| G & F Oil, Inc. | 1 | 74 |
| Atmos Pipeline - Texas | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Palo Pinto County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- FX Energy Operating, LLC2 permitsJan 27, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Atmos Pipeline - Texas1 permitNov 14, 2025 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Palo Pinto County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Palo Pinto County the Atoka is reported in 282 wells, median top 3,762 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawn | 1,183 | 2 | 1,720 | 980–2,864 |
| Marble Falls | 1,166 | 3 | 4,180 | 3,534–4,700 |
| Big Saline | 538 | 0 | 3,560 | 3,146–4,017 |
| Barnett | 383 | 3 | 4,744 | 3,726–5,195 |
| Bend | 364 | 2 | 3,946 | 3,323–4,486 |
| Caddo | 351 | 0 | 3,450 | 2,549–3,935 |
| Atoka | 282 | 1 | 3,762 | 2,590–4,258 |
| Palo Pinto | 198 | 1 | 615 | 282–1,260 |
| Ellenburger | 175 | 0 | 4,610 | 4,070–5,162 |
| Duffer | 109 | 0 | 3,659 | 3,383–4,120 |
| Canyon | 53 | 0 | 920 | 563–1,330 |
| Mississippian | 30 | 0 | 4,548 | 4,031–4,878 |
| Gunsight | 20 | 0 | 1,398 | 1,049–1,545 |
| Pennsylvanian | 19 | 0 | 3,515 | 3,260–3,960 |
| Cisco | 14 | 0 | 478 | 265–563 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 106
- active UIC permits of 418
- 262K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.62M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Palo Pinto 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917649 | Aug 15, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | G & F Oil, Inc. | Coffee Group K.L. Bridges #9 | 1,800 | 36336366 |
| 914050 | Mar 13, 2026 | Mar 13, 2026 | FX Energy Operating, LLC | Hooper East #1 | 5,245 | 36336154 |
| 913093 | Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 27, 2026 | FX Energy Operating, LLC | Jaggers 'A' #N 2 | 5,217 | 36336210 |
| 911399 | Nov 14, 2025 | Nov 14, 2025 | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Cathodic Protection #34 | 550 | 36336365 |
| 911129 | Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 20, 2025 | Antle Operating, Inc. | Eubanks, T.H. #7 | 1,900 | 36336364 |
| 902353 | Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 20, 2024 | Eagleridge Operating, LLC | Willingham #3 | 4,187 | 36332401 |
| 898300 | Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | Laws Exploration LLC | Keck #1 | 3,860 | 36335415 |
| 893410 | Sep 6, 2023 | Sep 6, 2023 | Oakridge Oil and Gas, LP | Clayton Ranch C #2 | 5,632 | 36336138 |
| 893178 | Aug 28, 2023 | Aug 28, 2023 | Brower Oil & Gas Co., Inc. | Laneve, V. D. Mrs. 'A' #6A | 1,682 | 36300505 |
| 884280 | Sep 28, 2022 | Sep 28, 2022 | B.O.L.D. Oil and Gas, LLC | Chevron #1 | 4,999 | 36336363 |
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/palo-pinto?days=90, documented in the API reference.