COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 433
Stonewall County
Stonewall County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
L.C.S. Production Company leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, one of 7 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Stonewall County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,500 ft (prior year: 5,928 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 300 active disposal and injection permits, with 20.1M 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 M2.0.
4,245 drilling permits have been issued in Stonewall County since 1977.
4,245 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 3, 2026
Watch Stonewall CountyAlso: every Stonewall County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- +0%
- vs prior 90d (1)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,600
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 650
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 74 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 18 · prior 12 17(+6%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Stonewall County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Kinder Morgan CO2 Company LLC1 permitFeb 26, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Stonewall County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Stonewall County the Gunsight is reported in 155 wells, median top 3,636 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon | 579 | 1 | 4,225 | 4,029–4,850 |
| Coleman Junction | 447 | 3 | 2,435 | 1,780–2,897 |
| Strawn | 330 | 3 | 5,103 | 4,806–5,424 |
| Tannehill | 328 | 4 | 3,086 | 2,873–3,677 |
| Cisco | 305 | 1 | 3,330 | 3,105–3,568 |
| Gunsight | 155 | 0 | 3,636 | 3,537–3,703 |
| Caddo | 118 | 0 | 5,846 | 5,629–6,080 |
| Bend | 82 | 1 | 5,991 | 5,881–6,110 |
| Saddle Creek | 76 | 0 | 3,124 | 2,958–3,930 |
| Ellenburger | 62 | 0 | 6,216 | 5,830–6,474 |
| Mississippian | 59 | 0 | 6,073 | 5,865–6,233 |
| Palo Pinto | 50 | 0 | 3,020 | 2,978–3,202 |
| Wolfcamp | 16 | 0 | 2,014 | 1,608–2,699 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 300
- active UIC permits of 1,203
- 890K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 20.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Stonewall 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
- M2.0
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917522 | Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | Patton Exploration, Inc. | Wood #1 | 4,600 | 43334261 |
| 915034 | May 8, 2026 | May 8, 2026 | Scout Energy Management LLC | Ferguson 135 #1 | 5,701 | 43333500 |
| 913925 | Mar 9, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | Sojourner Drilling Corporation | Hot Springs #4 | 4,500 | 43334260 |
| 913306 | Feb 26, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | Kinder Morgan CO2 Company LLC | ESPLMP90 #1 | 350 | 43334259 |
| 913545 | Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 20, 2026 | L.C.S. Production Company | McMillin, I.S. AC 11 #4R | 3,077 | 43330001 |
| 913073 | Jan 26, 2026 | Jan 26, 2026 | Chisholm Operating, Inc. | Salt Creek #1 | 3,990 | 43334258 |
| 912112 | Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | Bridwell Oil Co. | Beakley #1 | 7,000 | 43334257 |
| 910608 | Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | NBX Energy, LLC | Flat Top Ranch DMF #1 | 6,500 | 43334256 |
| 910524 | Sep 18, 2025 | Sep 18, 2025 | Salida Exploration, LLC | Graham 'A' #1 | 4,000 | 43334255 |
| 908419 | Jun 6, 2025 | Jun 6, 2025 | Patton Exploration, Inc. | McFarland #1 | 6,200 | 43334254 |
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/stonewall?days=90, documented in the API reference.