COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 7B · CODE 447
Throckmorton County
Throckmorton County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued June 1, 2026.
Okie Operating Company, Ltd. leads with 2 permits in the past 12 months, one of 5 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Throckmorton County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 1,676 ft (prior year: 1,700 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 235 active disposal and injection permits, with 5.93M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
6,402 drilling permits have been issued in Throckmorton County since 1977.
6,402 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jun 1, 2026
Watch Throckmorton CountyAlso: every Throckmorton County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
- -100%
- vs prior 90d (3)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 850
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 77 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 20 · prior 12 20(+0%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Okie Operating Company, Ltd. | 2 | 48 |
| S.B. Street Operating, Inc. | 1 | 190 |
| Cooper Oil & Gas, LLC | 1 | 122 |
| Ruthson Energy, Inc. | 1 | 4 |
| R & R Oil & Gas, LLC | 1 | 3 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Throckmorton County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- R & R Oil & Gas, LLC1 permitApr 16, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Throckmorton County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Throckmorton County the Mississippian is reported in 621 wells, median top 4,712 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo | 809 | 1 | 4,250 | 3,871–4,770 |
| Mississippian | 621 | 1 | 4,712 | 4,512–5,071 |
| Strawn | 265 | 0 | 3,432 | 2,788–4,000 |
| Tannehill | 222 | 1 | 696 | 405–1,054 |
| Palo Pinto | 185 | 0 | 2,630 | 2,104–3,244 |
| Saddle Creek | 128 | 2 | 986 | 729–1,278 |
| Barnett | 96 | 0 | 4,636 | 4,342–4,975 |
| Coleman Junction | 94 | 6 | 600 | 345–790 |
| Marble Falls | 90 | 0 | 4,462 | 4,274–4,744 |
| Cisco | 86 | 2 | 1,292 | 990–1,738 |
| Wolfcamp | 79 | 2 | 790 | 600–1,040 |
| Gunsight | 68 | 0 | 1,194 | 353–1,514 |
| Permian (undifferentiated) | 65 | 1 | 1,180 | 759–1,930 |
| San Andres | 50 | 0 | 750 | 404–1,250 |
| Smithwick | 46 | 0 | 4,359 | 4,013–4,760 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 235
- active UIC permits of 1,044
- 311K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 5.93M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Throckmorton County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 915944 | Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 | Okie Operating Company, Ltd. | Wbrr 233 #113 | 999 | 44736870 |
| 915686 | May 20, 2026 | May 20, 2026 | Ruthson Energy, Inc. | Sloan Unit #1 | 5,500 | 44736869 |
| 915428 | May 14, 2026 | May 14, 2026 | Cooper Oil & Gas, LLC | Rogers #3 | 5,000 | 44736818 |
| 914927 | Apr 21, 2026 | Apr 21, 2026 | Okie Operating Company, Ltd. | Wbrr 233 #112 | 999 | 44736868 |
| 911813 | Apr 16, 2026 | Apr 16, 2026 | R & R Oil & Gas, LLC | Whitaker 1621 #3 | 1,683 | 44736705 |
| 913678 | Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 24, 2026 | S.B. Street Operating, Inc. | J. R. Marshall #5 | 1,668 | 44734579 |
| 910333 | Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | Petex | Matthews QA #11QA | 1,300 | 44736867 |
| 909020 | Jul 8, 2025 | Jul 8, 2025 | Subsea Operating Co. | Matthews 23 #8 | 1,700 | 44736866 |
| 909017 | Jul 8, 2025 | Jul 8, 2025 | Subsea Operating Co. | Matthews 23 #7 | 1,700 | 44736865 |
| 908783 | Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | S.B. Street Operating, Inc. | Butler #1 | 4,000 | 44736864 |
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/throckmorton?days=90, documented in the API reference.