COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 503
Young County
Young County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, versus 5 in the prior quarter).
B.O.L.D. Oil and Gas, LLC leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 11 operators active in the county.
One operator filed a first Young County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 4,580 ft (prior year: 4,999 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 471 active disposal and injection permits, with 14.1M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
11,778 drilling permits have been issued in Young County since 1977.
11,778 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Sep 21, 2026
Watch Young CountyAlso: every Young County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 6
- permits issued, 90d
- +20%
- vs prior 90d (5)
- 4
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 2,942
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 1,496
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 97 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 22 · prior 12 24(-8%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| B.O.L.D. Oil and Gas, LLC | 3 | 13 |
| Ruthson Energy, Inc. | 3 | 4 |
| Tomsha LLC | 2 | 187 |
| Borderline Operating Corp. | 2 | 80 |
| Ridge Oil Company | 1 | 145 |
| Stovall Operating Co. | 1 | 139 |
| Cooper Oil & Gas, LLC | 1 | 56 |
| Rogers Drilling Co., Inc. | 1 | 50 |
| Mammoth Operating LLC | 1 | 36 |
| Keating Energy, Inc. | 1 | 17 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Young County came in the last year. 1 in total.
- Mammoth Operating LLC1 permitJul 17, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Permit types, 90d
| Type | Window | Prior | All time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill | 6 | 4 | 10,430 |
| Recompletion | 0 | 1 | 563 |
| Reenter | 0 | 2 | 210 |
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Young County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Fewer than ten wells in Young County report the Pennsylvanian, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddo | 1,524 | 12 | 3,871 | 3,471–4,370 |
| Gunsight | 1,170 | 3 | 718 | 514–1,136 |
| Marble Falls | 747 | 1 | 4,340 | 4,038–4,775 |
| Mississippian | 738 | 2 | 4,616 | 4,304–5,020 |
| Strawn | 729 | 9 | 2,914 | 1,897–3,655 |
| Palo Pinto | 585 | 13 | 1,468 | 976–2,518 |
| Bryson | 167 | 1 | 3,295 | 2,839–3,563 |
| Barnett | 160 | 0 | 4,558 | 4,242–4,914 |
| Atoka | 79 | 2 | 4,000 | 3,849–4,324 |
| Canyon | 78 | 4 | 1,258 | 651–2,465 |
| Cisco | 68 | 2 | 823 | 494–1,372 |
| Smithwick | 62 | 2 | 3,728 | 3,388–4,090 |
| Thomas Sand | 25 | 0 | 902 | 640–1,004 |
| Bend | 24 | 0 | 4,132 | 3,897–4,376 |
| Ellenburger | 18 | 0 | 4,757 | 4,541–5,608 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 471
- active UIC permits of 2,229
- 311K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 14.1M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Young 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 919598 | Oct 31, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 | Keating Energy, Inc. | Daws 759 #1 | 4,999 | 50342595 |
| 919678 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | Ruthson Energy, Inc. | S Hughes Unit #8 | 6,500 | 50342594 |
| 918602 | Sep 23, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | Tomsha LLC | McKinley #112 | 650 | 50342593 |
| 918601 | Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 | Tomsha LLC | McKinley #111 | 600 | 50342592 |
| 917925 | Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Ruthson Energy, Inc. | S Hughes Unit #7 | 6,500 | 50342590 |
| 918000 | Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 24, 2026 | Borderline Operating Corp. | Loving Ranch #11 | 5,200 | 50342591 |
| 917518 | Aug 6, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 | B.O.L.D. Oil and Gas, LLC | Bullock 280 #2S | 3,500 | 50342589 |
| 917489 | Jul 31, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | B.O.L.D. Oil and Gas, LLC | C.R. Perry #2R | 1,200 | 50342588 |
| 917255 | Jul 24, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 | Ridge Oil Company | Section 606 'A' #15 | 4,580 | 50342403 |
| 917186 | Jul 17, 2026 | Jul 17, 2026 | Mammoth Operating LLC | McClurg, M. L. #18 | 600 | 50342587 |
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/young?days=90, documented in the API reference.