COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 503
Young County, Texas
Young County permitting is running 2.0 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (6 total, versus 7 in the prior quarter). 1 was issued in the past week.
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 4,630 ft (prior year: 3,500 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.
11,780 drilling permits have been issued in Young County since 1977.
11,780 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Oct 29, 2026
Watch Young CountyAlso: every Young County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 6
- permits issued, 90d
- -14%
- vs prior 90d (7)
- 4
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 4,075
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 1,496
- 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 17 · prior 12 9(+89%)
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 | 22 |
| Ruthson Energy, Inc. | 3 | 4 |
| Tomsha LLC | 2 | 189 |
| Borderline Operating Corp. | 2 | 89 |
| Ridge Oil Company | 1 | 204 |
| Stovall Operating Co. | 1 | 148 |
| Cooper Oil & Gas, LLC | 1 | 107 |
| Rogers Drilling Co., Inc. | 1 | 52 |
| Mammoth Operating LLC | 1 | 37 |
| Keating Energy, Inc. | 1 | 21 |
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 →
In Young County the Smithwick is reported in 62 wells, median top 3,728 ft, highlighted below. 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 |
Questions about Young County
How many drilling permits were issued in Young County in the last 12 months?
17 permits were issued in Young County in the last 12 months, up 89% from 9 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Oct 29, 2026. 11,780 are on file since 1977.
Every Young County permit →Who is the most active operator in Young County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, B.O.L.D. Oil and Gas, LLC is the most active operator in Young County, with 3 of 17, followed by Ruthson Energy, Inc. (3) and Tomsha LLC (2). 4 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Young County →How many oil and gas wells are in Young County?
16,099 wells are on file in Young County: 2,185 active, 9,423 plugged, and 13 permitted and not yet drilled. 8 are horizontal, and 163 operators hold them.
Every well in Young County →How much oil and gas does Young County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Young County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Young County →How much water is injected in Young County?
14.1 million barrels of water were injected in Young County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 471 of the county's 2,229 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Young County →What formations are drilled in Young County?
Completion filings for wells in Young County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Caddo (1,524 wells, median top 3,871 ft), the Gunsight (1,170 wells, median top 718 ft), and the Marble Falls (747 wells, median top 4,340 ft).
Formations in Young County →What basin is Young County in?
Petrora lists Young 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 Young County?
TexNet located no earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the area of Young County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Young 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/young?days=90, documented in the API reference.