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COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 497

Wise County

Wise County permitting is running 3.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (9 total, down 10% on the prior quarter).

BKV Barnett, LLC leads with 17 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.

Median permitted depth over the past year is 10,369 ft (prior year: 18,500 ft); 100% of the past year's permits are horizontal.

The county has 48 active disposal and injection permits, with 9.81M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.

9,171 drilling permits have been issued in Wise County since 1977.

9,171 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 24, 2026

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Also: every Wise County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →

Window30 days90 days180 days365 days
9
permits issued, 90d
-10%
vs prior 90d (10)
2
operators filing
100%
horizontal
9,580
avg permitted depth, ft
444
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 41 · prior 12 53(-23%)

0510152017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Top operators, last 12 months

By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.

OperatorPermitsWells
BKV Barnett, LLC172,137
BKV North Texas, LLC7106
Lakota Energy, Ltd.393

Full operator directory →

New entrants, last 12 months

Operators whose first permit in Wise County came in the last year. None.

Permit types, 90d

TypeWindowPriorAll time
Drill658,250
Recompletion31721

What the types mean →

Formations in completed wells

RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS

Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Wise County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →

FormationWellsPermitted last 3 yrsMedian top, ftP10–P90
Barnett3,02457,0886,576–7,470
Caddo2,878224,6223,868–5,604
Marble Falls2,26156,7056,110–7,115
Atoka1,70305,4964,850–6,036
Forestburg1,10427,1186,595–7,571
Strawn78703,6002,051–4,602
Viola51817,8527,219–8,231
Bend28805,5004,974–6,065
Bryson13402,7501,908–3,660
Ellenburger7807,0626,745–8,090
Big Saline2505,4785,124–6,044
Canyon2401,9001,557–2,560
Palo Pinto210810550–1,488
Mississippian1606,6335,727–7,839
Simpson1207,9307,290–8,019

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Disposal and injection

48
active UIC permits of 304
298K
permitted bbl/day, active
9.81M
bbl injected, last 12 reported months
Jun 2025
reported through

Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Wise 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

PermitSeenIssuedOperatorLease / wellDepthAPI
918656Sep 26, 2026Sep 24, 2026BKV Barnett, LLCMason, Rose 6 (AW) #6HH16,57349738168
918003Sep 26, 2026Sep 24, 2026BKV Barnett, LLCMason, Rose 4 (AW) #4HH8,87949738166
918723Sep 24, 2026Sep 21, 2026BKV Barnett, LLCFarlow, J F GU a 5 (AW) #5HH7,41249735575
918531Sep 17, 2026Sep 14, 2026BKV Barnett, LLCDecatur GU 3 1 (AW) #1HH11,92449735985
918005Sep 13, 2026Sep 11, 2026BKV Barnett, LLCMason, Rose 5 (AW) #5HH9,63749738167
918002Sep 13, 2026Sep 11, 2026BKV Barnett, LLCMason, Rose 3 (AW) #3HH7,29349738165
917646Aug 15, 2026Aug 13, 2026Lakota Energy, Ltd.Murphy #2HH7,50049738164
917528Aug 14, 2026Aug 12, 2026BKV Barnett, LLCMcAlister, O H GU 21 (AW) #21HH9,50049736195
917645Aug 9, 2026Aug 7, 2026Lakota Energy, Ltd.Murphy #1HH7,50049738163
916477Jul 28, 2026Jul 28, 2026BKV North Texas, LLCVinson Fee B 7 (AW) #7HH12,45249738159

All Wise County permits →

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/wise?days=90, documented in the API reference.