COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 439
Tarrant County
Tarrant County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 1 in the prior quarter).
TEP Barnett USA, LLC leads with 19 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,000 ft; 100% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 9 active disposal and injection permits, with 19.1M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
12,588 drilling permits have been issued in Tarrant County since 1977.
12,588 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 6, 2026
Watch Tarrant CountyAlso: every Tarrant 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
- 100%
- horizontal
- 8,500
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 132
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 71 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 48 · prior 12 74(-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 |
|---|---|---|
| TEP Barnett USA, LLC | 19 | 1,514 |
| BKV North Texas, LLC | 4 | 1,335 |
| Upp Operating, LLC | 4 | 105 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Tarrant County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Tarrant County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Tarrant County the Caddo is reported in 414 wells, median top 3,247 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnett | 4,734 | 24 | 7,038 | 6,593–8,000 |
| Marble Falls | 2,775 | 23 | 6,691 | 6,319–7,209 |
| Atoka | 1,748 | 18 | 6,464 | 5,449–7,524 |
| Bend | 553 | 1 | 7,010 | 5,798–7,761 |
| Caddo | 414 | 1 | 3,247 | 2,832–6,272 |
| Viola | 402 | 0 | 7,381 | 7,118–7,718 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 233 | 1 | 1,625 | 1,175–1,950 |
| Forestburg | 206 | 1 | 7,092 | 6,746–7,290 |
| Smithwick | 157 | 1 | 6,554 | 5,707–7,332 |
| Ellenburger | 71 | 1 | 7,362 | 6,960–8,208 |
| Morrow | 69 | 0 | 6,911 | 6,543–7,391 |
| Big Saline | 64 | 1 | 5,869 | 5,384–6,386 |
| Strawn | 58 | 0 | 2,625 | 1,318–3,637 |
| Paluxy | 12 | 0 | 420 | 190–420 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 9
- active UIC permits of 15
- 210K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 19.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Tarrant County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 0
- M2+ events in the area
- —
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917479 | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | BKV North Texas, LLC | Dido B 2 (AW) #2HH | 8,500 | 43930927 |
| 916612 | Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | BKV North Texas, LLC | Lewisville '7' Unit #1HH | 8,880 | 43931434 |
| 914934 | Apr 22, 2026 | Apr 22, 2026 | TEP Barnett USA, LLC | Zion D Mipa Unit #4HH | 9,000 | 43937394 |
| 914780 | Apr 22, 2026 | Apr 22, 2026 | TEP Barnett USA, LLC | Zion C Mipa Unit #3HH | 9,500 | 43937391 |
| 914933 | Apr 22, 2026 | Apr 22, 2026 | TEP Barnett USA, LLC | Zion B Mipa Unit #2HH | 9,000 | 43937393 |
| 914932 | Apr 22, 2026 | Apr 22, 2026 | TEP Barnett USA, LLC | Zion a Mipa Unit #1HH | 9,000 | 43937392 |
| 913710 | Feb 27, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | TEP Barnett USA, LLC | Traders Village Fish Creek Mipac #3HH | 9,000 | 43937390 |
| 913708 | Feb 27, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | TEP Barnett USA, LLC | Traders Village Fish Creek Mipab #2HH | 9,000 | 43937389 |
| 913706 | Feb 27, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | TEP Barnett USA, LLC | Traders Village Fish Creek Mipaa #1HH | 9,000 | 43937388 |
| 912945 | Feb 18, 2026 | Feb 18, 2026 | Upp Operating, LLC | YU Unit #4HH | 9,000 | 43934820 |
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/tarrant?days=90, documented in the API reference.