COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 367
Parker County, Texas
Parker County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued November 14, 2025.
Atmos Pipeline - Texas leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
One operator filed a first Parker County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 550 ft; 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 18 active disposal and injection permits, with 8.89M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
5,932 drilling permits have been issued in Parker County since 1976.
5,932 permits on file since 1976 · last issued Nov 14, 2025
Watch Parker CountyAlso: every Parker County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 30d
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- vs prior 30d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 574
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 1(-100%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Atmos Pipeline - Texas | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Parker County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- 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 Parker 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 |
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| Barnett | 1,620 | 1 | 6,352 | 5,436–6,616 |
| Marble Falls | 1,536 | 1 | 6,076 | 4,906–6,472 |
| Strawn | 494 | 1 | 1,900 | 989–2,850 |
| Caddo | 483 | 0 | 3,156 | 1,400–4,063 |
| Atoka | 454 | 1 | 4,150 | 2,508–5,728 |
| Bend | 398 | 1 | 5,563 | 4,496–5,879 |
| Big Saline | 168 | 0 | 4,958 | 3,938–5,800 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 105 | 0 | 525 | 357–756 |
| Ellenburger | 101 | 0 | 6,227 | 5,340–6,838 |
| Smithwick | 85 | 0 | 5,701 | 5,523–6,353 |
| Forestburg | 43 | 0 | 6,497 | 6,286–6,656 |
| Duffer | 41 | 0 | 4,390 | 4,036–5,500 |
| Hood | 34 | 0 | 5,750 | 4,913–5,830 |
| Morrow | 17 | 0 | 5,928 | 5,610–6,125 |
| Palo Pinto | 11 | 0 | 1,250 | 931–1,717 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 18
- active UIC permits of 71
- 291K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 8.89M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Parker 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 |
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| 911398 | Nov 14, 2025 | Nov 14, 2025 | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | Cathodic Protection #33 | 550 | 36735453 |
| 892098 | Apr 2, 2024 | Apr 2, 2024 | Winfield Operating Company | Caudill Thomas (Hill) Unit #1 | 5,564 | 36734372 |
| 885133 | Jul 11, 2023 | Jul 11, 2023 | Winfield Operating Company | Caudill Unit 3 #2 | 5,570 | 36734372 |
| 886546 | Dec 28, 2022 | Dec 28, 2022 | Winfield Operating Company | Caudill U2 #1 | 5,400 | 36734064 |
| 886546 | Dec 28, 2022 | Dec 28, 2022 | Winfield Operating Company | Caudill U2 #1 | 5,400 | 36734064 |
| 878502 | Mar 31, 2022 | Mar 31, 2022 | White Knight Production LLC | Ashbrook #1 | 5,118 | 36735448 |
| 877966 | Mar 16, 2022 | Mar 16, 2022 | Stamper Operating Co., Inc. | Otis Hooten #2 | 4,500 | 36735450 |
| 871803 | Aug 16, 2021 | Aug 16, 2021 | Chapparal Operating Co. | Lesikar, Wm. #1 | 4,000 | 36732176 |
| 863372 | Apr 21, 2020 | Apr 21, 2020 | JBL Oil & Gas Operating, LLC | Gouge #1HH | 6,100 | 36735452 |
| 862736 | Mar 16, 2020 | Mar 16, 2020 | Xplore Operating, LLC | Swanson-Waldrum Unit #1 | 4,930 | 36730418 |
Questions about Parker County
How many drilling permits were issued in Parker County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Parker County in the last 12 months. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Nov 14, 2025. 5,932 are on file since 1976.
Every Parker County permit →Who is the most active operator in Parker County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Atmos Pipeline - Texas is the most active operator in Parker County, with 1 of 1. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Parker County →How many oil and gas wells are in Parker County?
5,277 wells are on file in Parker County: 1,282 active, 2,799 plugged, and 1 permitted and not yet drilled. 1,513 are horizontal, and 91 operators hold them.
Every well in Parker County →How much oil and gas does Parker County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Parker County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Parker County →How much water is injected in Parker County?
8.9 million barrels of water were injected in Parker County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 18 of the county's 71 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Parker County →What formations are drilled in Parker County?
Completion filings for wells in Parker County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Barnett (1,620 wells, median top 6,352 ft), the Marble Falls (1,536 wells, median top 6,076 ft), and the Strawn (494 wells, median top 1,900 ft).
Formations in Parker County →What basin is Parker County in?
Petrora lists Parker 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 Parker County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Parker County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Parker 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/parker?days=30, documented in the API reference.