COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 393
Roberts County
Roberts County permitting is running 1.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (4 total, versus 4 in the prior quarter).
Summit Petroleum LLC leads with 5 permits in the past 12 months, one of 4 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Roberts County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,900 ft (prior year: 10,000 ft); 50% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 22 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.59M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M5.0.
3,150 drilling permits have been issued in Roberts County since 1977.
3,150 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 20, 2026
Watch Roberts CountyAlso: every Roberts County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 4
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (4)
- 1
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 6,900
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 252
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 68 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 17 · prior 12 26(-35%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Summit Petroleum LLC | 5 | 0 |
| Texakoma E & P, LLC | 2 | 61 |
| Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. | 2 | 20 |
| Pantera Energy Company | 1 | 82 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Roberts County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Summit Petroleum LLC5 permitsJul 28, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Roberts County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Roberts County the Pennsylvanian is reported in 136 wells, median top 5,455 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Dolomite | 799 | 10 | 3,903 | 3,295–4,246 |
| Douglas | 699 | 12 | 6,316 | 5,502–7,037 |
| Granite Wash | 647 | 1 | 9,059 | 8,138–9,837 |
| Morrow | 402 | 3 | 9,450 | 8,034–10,900 |
| Tonkawa | 362 | 8 | 7,014 | 5,832–7,774 |
| Atoka | 273 | 0 | 9,934 | 8,433–10,710 |
| Kansas City | 258 | 2 | 7,538 | 6,284–8,140 |
| Cleveland | 244 | 0 | 7,324 | 6,580–8,271 |
| Oswego | 162 | 0 | 8,150 | 7,291–8,847 |
| Des Moines | 140 | 1 | 8,251 | 7,067–8,949 |
| Marmaton | 137 | 0 | 8,600 | 6,990–9,026 |
| Pennsylvanian | 136 | 0 | 5,455 | 4,626–6,102 |
| Wolfcamp | 108 | 1 | 4,000 | 3,579–4,589 |
| Chester | 80 | 0 | 9,734 | 8,601–11,221 |
| Mississippian | 53 | 1 | 9,720 | 8,619–12,102 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 22
- active UIC permits of 71
- 118K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.59M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Roberts County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M5.0
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917879 | Aug 22, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | Summit Petroleum LLC | Mayo Clinic 133 #5133HH | 6,900 | 39332799 |
| 917693 | Aug 15, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | Summit Petroleum LLC | Courson Ranch 133C #3133HH | 6,900 | 39332797 |
| 917704 | Aug 13, 2026 | Aug 11, 2026 | Summit Petroleum LLC | Mayo Clinic #4133HH | 6,900 | 39332798 |
| 917534 | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | Summit Petroleum LLC | Courson Ranch 133B #2133HH | 6,900 | 39332796 |
| 917364 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Summit Petroleum LLC | Courson Ranch 133A #1133HH | 6,900 | 39332795 |
| 916599 | Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | Texakoma E & P, LLC | McMordie #509 | 10,200 | 39332794 |
| 916410 | Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. | Courson Ranch L #1154 | 9,200 | 39332793 |
| 915745 | May 22, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. | Courson Ranch L #114 | 9,200 | 39332792 |
| 915118 | Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | Pantera Energy Company | Haggard TR 2 Lec #43A | 6,367 | 39300751 |
| 913576 | Feb 25, 2026 | Feb 25, 2026 | Texakoma E & P, LLC | McMordie 14 #2 | 10,000 | 39332791 |
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/roberts?days=90, documented in the API reference.