COUNTIES · TEXAS PANHANDLE · DISTRICT 10 · CODE 393
Roberts County, Texas
Roberts County permitting is running about one permit a month over the trailing 90 days (3 total, versus 5 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 →
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- permits issued, 30d
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- vs prior 30d (0)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 252
- 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 8(+25%)
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 | 68 |
| Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. | 2 | 22 |
| Pantera Energy Company | 1 | 108 |
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 →
| 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 |
Questions about Roberts County
How many drilling permits were issued in Roberts County in the last 12 months?
10 permits were issued in Roberts County in the last 12 months, level with 10 in the 12 months before. 50% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Aug 20, 2026. 3,150 are on file since 1977.
Every Roberts County permit →Who is the most active operator in Roberts County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Summit Petroleum LLC is the most active operator in Roberts County, with 5 of 10, followed by Texakoma E & P, LLC (2) and Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. (2). 1 operator filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Roberts County →How many oil and gas wells are in Roberts County?
2,764 wells are on file in Roberts County: 989 active, 967 plugged, and 9 permitted and not yet drilled. 465 are horizontal, and 41 operators hold them.
Every well in Roberts County →How much oil and gas does Roberts County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Roberts County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Roberts County →How much water is injected in Roberts County?
1.6 million barrels of water were injected in Roberts County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 22 of the county's 71 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Roberts County →What formations are drilled in Roberts County?
Completion filings for wells in Roberts County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Brown Dolomite (799 wells, median top 3,903 ft), the Douglas (699 wells, median top 6,316 ft), and the Granite Wash (647 wells, median top 9,059 ft).
Formations in Roberts County →What basin is Roberts County in?
Petrora lists Roberts County in the Texas Panhandle. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 10.
The Texas Panhandle →Have there been earthquakes in Roberts County?
TexNet located 1 earthquake of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Roberts County's permitted wells in the last 2 years; the largest was M5.0.
Earthquakes in Roberts 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/roberts?days=30, documented in the API reference.