COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 425

Somervell County

Somervell County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued December 20, 2011.

The county has 3 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.28M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

217 drilling permits have been issued in Somervell County since 1977.

217 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Dec 20, 2011

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Also: every Somervell County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days 90 days 180 days 365 days

0: permits issued, 90d
—: vs prior 90d (0)
0: operators filing
—: horizontal
—: avg permitted depth, ft
21: operators, all time

WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER

Operators by well inventory

No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.

Operator	Permits	Wells
Diversified Production LLC	—	101
Eagleridge Operating LLC	—	5
EOG Resources Inc.	—	5
Bluestone Natural Res. II LLC	—	4
Arrington Oil&gas Operating LLC	—	4
Vanco Oil & Gas Corp.	—	2
South Carlton Oil	—	2
BKV North Texas LLC	—	2
Upp Operating LLC	—	2
Devon Energy Production Co L.P.	—	2

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Somervell County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

Type	Window	Prior	All time

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Somervell County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

In Somervell County the Atoka is reported in 17 wells, median top 3,739 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →

Formation	Wells	Median top, ft	P10–P90
Barnett	132	5,391	5,074–5,876
Marble Falls	129	4,952	4,727–5,500
Hood	39	4,772	4,651–5,199
Atoka	17	3,739	2,120–4,445
Bend	14	4,210	3,599–5,238

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

3: active UIC permits of 6
70K: permitted bbl/day, active
1.28M: bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025: reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Somervell County →

Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →

Latest permits

NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE

Permit	Seen	Issued	Operator	Lease / well	Depth	API
730081	Dec 20, 2011	Dec 20, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Branham Keller Unit #5HH	9,000	42530278
730076	Dec 20, 2011	Dec 20, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Branham Keller Unit #4HH	9,000	42530277
713785	Apr 13, 2011	Apr 13, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Hoodenpyle Unit #1HH	9,000	42530275
713786	Apr 12, 2011	Apr 12, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Hoodenpyle Unit #3HH	9,000	42530276
711171	Mar 7, 2011	Mar 7, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Hoodenpyle Unit #2HH	9,000	42530274
709746	Feb 8, 2011	Feb 8, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Branham Keller Unit #3HH	9,000	42530273
709746	Feb 8, 2011	Feb 8, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Branham Keller Unit #3HH	9,000	42530273
709744	Feb 8, 2011	Feb 8, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Branham Keller Unit #2HH	9,000	42530272
709744	Feb 8, 2011	Feb 8, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Branham Keller Unit #2HH	9,000	42530272
709215	Feb 7, 2011	Feb 7, 2011	Quicksilver Resources Inc.	Barker Coffman Unit #7HH	9,000	42530271

All Somervell County permits →

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/somervell?days=90, documented in the API reference.