COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 485
Wichita County
Wichita County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, versus 4 in the prior quarter).
Newport Operating, LLC leads with 6 permits in the past 12 months, one of 8 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Wichita County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 3,050 ft (prior year: 4,200 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 1,278 active disposal and injection permits, with 59.9M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
12,814 drilling permits have been issued in Wichita County since 1977.
12,814 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 12, 2026
Watch Wichita CountyAlso: every Wichita County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 6
- permits issued, 90d
- +50%
- vs prior 90d (4)
- 5
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 2,792
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 923
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 105 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 29 · prior 12 26(+12%)
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 Wichita County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Tivoli Services, LLC1 permitSep 25, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Kodiak Oil & Gas, Inc.1 permitAug 24, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Wichita County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Wichita County the Strawn is reported in 111 wells, median top 3,650 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco | 2,207 | 13 | 670 | 256–1,440 |
| Gunsight | 1,824 | 15 | 1,740 | 1,356–1,935 |
| Thomas Sand | 819 | 11 | 1,453 | 1,192–1,684 |
| Canyon | 368 | 9 | 2,295 | 1,952–2,831 |
| KMA | 360 | 11 | 3,802 | 3,605–4,040 |
| Coleman Junction | 296 | 0 | 658 | 592–767 |
| Tannehill | 289 | 10 | 520 | 300–800 |
| Permian (undifferentiated) | 161 | 0 | 463 | 240–911 |
| Strawn | 111 | 6 | 3,650 | 1,370–4,110 |
| Ellenburger | 88 | 0 | 4,210 | 3,093–4,948 |
| Caddo | 65 | 1 | 4,012 | 3,797–5,117 |
| Pennsylvanian | 32 | 0 | 594 | 307–767 |
| Saddle Creek | 17 | 0 | 1,291 | 1,257–1,378 |
| Wichita-Albany | 14 | 0 | 943 | 511–1,709 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 1,278
- active UIC permits of 5,516
- 866K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 59.9M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Wichita 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917108 | Oct 14, 2026 | Oct 12, 2026 | Texoma Copc, LLC | AR-1500 #1 | 400 | 48546432 |
| 918911 | Sep 30, 2026 | Sep 28, 2026 | R2Q Operating LLC | Bradley #32T | 5,000 | 48546437 |
| 918541 | Sep 27, 2026 | Sep 25, 2026 | Tivoli Services, LLC | A-01 Dagb #1 | 400 | 48546436 |
| 918471 | Sep 20, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | R2Q Operating LLC | Sauder A #11 | 5,000 | 48546435 |
| 918384 | Sep 11, 2026 | Sep 9, 2026 | Newport Operating, LLC | Gray, Noble Mrs. #33 | 1,350 | 48546434 |
| 917938 | Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Kodiak Oil & Gas, Inc. | Throckmorton #1 | 4,600 | 48546433 |
| 915644 | Jun 2, 2026 | Jun 2, 2026 | Enterprise Products Operatingllc | SB1-MP 187.432 #1 | 400 | 48546431 |
| 915842 | May 27, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | Newport Operating, LLC | First National Sh.b #1 | 1,400 | 48546430 |
| 914538 | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 | Bonfire Operating LLC | Gillis, Bruce #21B | 1,700 | 48546427 |
| 914537 | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 | Bonfire Operating LLC | Gillis, Bruce #20B | 1,700 | 48546428 |
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/wichita?days=90, documented in the API reference.