COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 487
Wilbarger County, Texas
Wilbarger County permitting is running 2.7 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (8 total, down 62% on the prior quarter).
Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. leads with 25 permits in the past 12 months, one of 5 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Wilbarger County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 8,900 ft (prior year: 4,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 216 active disposal and injection permits, with 10.6M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
2,942 drilling permits have been issued in Wilbarger County since 1977.
2,942 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 9, 2026
Watch Wilbarger CountyAlso: every Wilbarger County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 30d
- -50%
- vs prior 30d (2)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 7,800
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 402
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 6, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 35 · prior 12 16(+119%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | 25 | 834 |
| Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | 5 | 870 |
| Riggins Energy, Inc. | 3 | 1 |
| Dry Fork Production Co., LLC | 1 | 97 |
| Jamex, Inc. | 1 | 2 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Wilbarger County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Riggins Energy, Inc.3 permitsJan 28, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Wilbarger County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon | 434 | 55 | 2,858 | 2,197–4,009 |
| Coleman Junction | 403 | 28 | 794 | 586–969 |
| Cisco | 379 | 25 | 1,265 | 500–3,340 |
| Gunsight | 203 | 21 | 2,234 | 1,890–3,312 |
| Palo Pinto | 192 | 35 | 3,738 | 3,245–4,983 |
| Caddo | 137 | 8 | 4,024 | 3,806–4,830 |
| Strawn | 131 | 25 | 3,944 | 3,548–6,076 |
| Ellenburger | 116 | 2 | 4,396 | 2,934–6,610 |
| KMA | 95 | 19 | 3,747 | 3,657–4,217 |
| Saddle Creek | 75 | 4 | 1,486 | 1,447–1,549 |
| Thomas Sand | 67 | 0 | 1,680 | 1,626–1,760 |
| Mississippian | 41 | 5 | 6,656 | 4,719–7,885 |
| Atoka | 27 | 3 | 4,415 | 4,119–5,612 |
| Barnett | 22 | 0 | 7,355 | 6,057–7,827 |
| Chester | 17 | 0 | 7,826 | 7,171–7,916 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 216
- active UIC permits of 1,273
- 236K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 10.6M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Wilbarger 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919208 | Oct 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | Riggins Energy, Inc. | Doans #1 | 7,800 | 48733430 |
| 918945 | Oct 1, 2026 | Sep 29, 2026 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner Rock Creek #551EP | 4,000 | 48733429 |
| 918879 | Sep 27, 2026 | Sep 25, 2026 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner West Horse #531EP | 9,000 | 48733428 |
| 917672 | Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 18, 2026 | Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | Sumner #2 | 8,900 | 48732693 |
| 917738 | Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 | Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | Whitefish B #1 | 8,900 | 48733197 |
| 917737 | Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 | Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | Whitefish A #2 | 8,900 | 48733190 |
| 917736 | Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 | Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | Whitefish A #1 | 8,900 | 48733183 |
| 917734 | Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 | Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | Sumner Heirs #5 | 8,900 | 48733182 |
| 917673 | Aug 9, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. | Sumner #3 | 8,900 | 48733299 |
| 917589 | Aug 8, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner South Red #362EP | 5,000 | 48733427 |
Questions about Wilbarger County
How many drilling permits were issued in Wilbarger County in the last 12 months?
35 permits were issued in Wilbarger County in the last 12 months, up 67% from 21 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 9, 2026. 2,942 are on file since 1977.
Every Wilbarger County permit →Who is the most active operator in Wilbarger County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. is the most active operator in Wilbarger County, with 25 of 35, followed by Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. (5) and Riggins Energy, Inc. (3). 3 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Wilbarger County →How many oil and gas wells are in Wilbarger County?
6,073 wells are on file in Wilbarger County: 844 active, 3,753 plugged, and 5 permitted and not yet drilled. 26 are horizontal, and 49 operators hold them.
Every well in Wilbarger County →How much oil and gas does Wilbarger County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Wilbarger County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Wilbarger County →How much water is injected in Wilbarger County?
10.6 million barrels of water were injected in Wilbarger County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 216 of the county's 1,273 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Wilbarger County →What formations are drilled in Wilbarger County?
Completion filings for wells in Wilbarger County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Canyon (434 wells, median top 2,858 ft), the Coleman Junction (403 wells, median top 794 ft), and the Cisco (379 wells, median top 1,265 ft).
Formations in Wilbarger County →What basin is Wilbarger County in?
Petrora lists Wilbarger County in the Barnett Shale and North Texas. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 09.
The Barnett Shale and North Texas →Have there been earthquakes in Wilbarger County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Wilbarger County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Wilbarger County →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/wilbarger?days=30, documented in the API reference.