COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 497
Wise County, Texas
Wise County permitting is running 3.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (9 total, versus 6 in 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
Watch Wise CountyAlso: every Wise County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 9
- permits issued, 90d
- +50%
- vs prior 90d (6)
- 2
- operators filing
- 100%
- horizontal
- 9,580
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 444
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 5, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 26 · prior 12 20(+30%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| BKV Barnett, LLC | 17 | 2,291 |
| BKV North Texas, LLC | 7 | 110 |
| Lakota Energy, Ltd. | 3 | 94 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Wise County came in the last year. None.
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 →
In Wise County the Viola is reported in 518 wells, median top 7,852 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnett | 3,025 | 6 | 7,087 | 6,576–7,470 |
| Caddo | 2,878 | 22 | 4,622 | 3,868–5,604 |
| Marble Falls | 2,262 | 6 | 6,704 | 6,110–7,115 |
| Atoka | 1,703 | 0 | 5,496 | 4,850–6,036 |
| Forestburg | 1,104 | 2 | 7,118 | 6,595–7,571 |
| Strawn | 787 | 0 | 3,600 | 2,051–4,602 |
| Viola | 518 | 1 | 7,852 | 7,219–8,231 |
| Bend | 288 | 0 | 5,500 | 4,974–6,065 |
| Bryson | 134 | 0 | 2,750 | 1,908–3,660 |
| Ellenburger | 78 | 0 | 7,062 | 6,745–8,090 |
| Big Saline | 25 | 0 | 5,478 | 5,124–6,044 |
| Canyon | 24 | 0 | 1,900 | 1,557–2,560 |
| Palo Pinto | 21 | 0 | 810 | 550–1,488 |
| Mississippian | 16 | 0 | 6,633 | 5,727–7,839 |
| Simpson | 12 | 0 | 7,930 | 7,290–8,019 |
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
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918656 | Sep 26, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | BKV Barnett, LLC | Mason, Rose 6 (AW) #6HH | 16,573 | 49738168 |
| 918003 | Sep 26, 2026 | Sep 24, 2026 | BKV Barnett, LLC | Mason, Rose 4 (AW) #4HH | 8,879 | 49738166 |
| 918723 | Sep 24, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | BKV Barnett, LLC | Farlow, J F GU a 5 (AW) #5HH | 7,412 | 49735575 |
| 918531 | Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 | BKV Barnett, LLC | Decatur GU 3 1 (AW) #1HH | 11,924 | 49735985 |
| 918005 | Sep 13, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | BKV Barnett, LLC | Mason, Rose 5 (AW) #5HH | 9,637 | 49738167 |
| 918002 | Sep 13, 2026 | Sep 11, 2026 | BKV Barnett, LLC | Mason, Rose 3 (AW) #3HH | 7,293 | 49738165 |
| 917646 | Aug 15, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | Lakota Energy, Ltd. | Murphy #2HH | 7,500 | 49738164 |
| 917528 | Aug 14, 2026 | Aug 12, 2026 | BKV Barnett, LLC | McAlister, O H GU 21 (AW) #21HH | 9,500 | 49736195 |
| 917645 | Aug 9, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | Lakota Energy, Ltd. | Murphy #1HH | 7,500 | 49738163 |
| 916477 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | BKV North Texas, LLC | Vinson Fee B 7 (AW) #7HH | 12,452 | 49738159 |
Questions about Wise County
How many drilling permits were issued in Wise County in the last 12 months?
27 permits were issued in Wise County in the last 12 months, up 42% from 19 in the 12 months before. 100% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Sep 24, 2026. 9,171 are on file since 1977.
Every Wise County permit →Who is the most active operator in Wise County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, BKV Barnett, LLC is the most active operator in Wise County, with 17 of 27, followed by BKV North Texas, LLC (7) and Lakota Energy, Ltd. (3). 2 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Wise County →How many oil and gas wells are in Wise County?
9,643 wells are on file in Wise County: 4,056 active, 3,366 plugged, and 9 permitted and not yet drilled. 1,875 are horizontal, and 98 operators hold them.
Every well in Wise County →How much oil and gas does Wise County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Wise County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Wise County →How much water is injected in Wise County?
9.8 million barrels of water were injected in Wise County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 48 of the county's 304 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Wise County →What formations are drilled in Wise County?
Completion filings for wells in Wise County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Barnett (3,025 wells, median top 7,087 ft), the Caddo (2,878 wells, median top 4,622 ft), and the Marble Falls (2,262 wells, median top 6,704 ft).
Formations in Wise County →What basin is Wise County in?
Petrora lists Wise 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 Wise County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Wise County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Wise 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/wise?days=90, documented in the API reference.