Texas county · RRC district 09
Cooke County, Texas oil and gas
- 793,135bbl oil in the last 12 months
- 688producing leases
- 3,853wells on the map
- 52drilling locations in two years
Oil wells and drilling locations in Cooke County
- Drilling locations52Permits issued in the last two years
- Producing wells2,426On a lease reporting production now
- Not producing273Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
- Plugged1,154The state's wellbore record says plugged
Sources: Railroad Commission of Texas well layers and permit files, US Census Bureau county outline, town points from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), base map from USGS The National Map. A dot is a surface location; a horizontal well runs a mile or more from it.
3,853 wells with a location on the state's map (2,426 producing, 273 not producing, 1,154 plugged) and 52 drilling locations permitted in the last 24 months, each where the Railroad Commission puts it.
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<p style="margin:4px 0 0;font-size:14px">Map: <a href="https://royaltyclerk.com/texas/counties/cooke-county-tx">Cooke County, Texas oil and gas wells</a> by Royalty Clerk, from Railroad Commission of Texas records</p>Wells near a town: Gainesville · Lake Kiowa · Lindsay · Muenster · Newest drilling permits in Cooke County · Wells by ZIP code
Cooke County reported 793,135 barrels of oil and 8.5 million mcf of gas in the last 12 months. That ranks 77th of 225 Texas counties by oil.
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August 2026 is still coming in. About 89% of Texas leases have reported it so far, so this page counts through July 2026 until it is fully reported.
- Producing leases
- 688of 1,027 on record
- Operators
- 57
- Fields
- 99
- Top operator
- EOG Resources, Inc.
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- Gas, last 12 months
- 8,513,906 mcf
- Share of Texas oil
- <0.1%
- Wells on record
- 3,944on leases with production reports
- Data through
- Jul 2026
Five years of output in Cooke County
Oil output in Cooke County fell 4% over the last 12 months
793k bbl through Jul 2026, against 824k bbl a year earlier. Peak Jan 2022: 89k bbl.
Gas output in Cooke County held steady over the last 12 months
8.5M mcf through Jul 2026, against 8.4M mcf a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 995k mcf.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query, county totals, through Jul 2026, file dated Oct 20, 2026.
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</script>Cooke County oil and gas production by year, 1993 to 2025
Every full year we hold, 1993 to 2025. The highest year for oil since 1993 was 2011, at 4,743,836 bbl. The highest year for gas was 2014, at 25,858,254 mcf.
| Year | Oilbbl | Gasmcf |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 815,807 | 8,391,345 |
| 2024 | 860,311 | 8,878,976 |
| 2023 | 920,796 | 9,590,640 |
| 2022 | 1,002,366 | 10,256,159 |
| 2021 | 1,036,547 | 11,695,246 |
| 2020 | 984,923 | 12,044,088 |
| 2019 | 1,183,326 | 13,253,166 |
| 2018 | 1,190,927 | 14,431,406 |
| 2017 | 1,307,209 | 16,336,579 |
| 2016 | 1,445,684 | 18,604,723 |
| 2015 | 1,801,769 | 23,814,985 |
| 2014 | 2,354,501 | 25,858,254 |
| 2013 | 3,211,484 | 24,309,882 |
| 2012 | 3,938,544 | 25,257,852 |
| 2011 | 4,743,836 | 15,712,519 |
| 2010 | 2,890,737 | 7,216,209 |
| 2009 | 2,042,715 | 4,843,510 |
| 2008 | 2,332,102 | 4,879,581 |
| 2007 | 2,014,381 | 2,785,543 |
| 2006 | 1,714,044 | 1,868,282 |
| 2005 | 1,622,927 | 1,325,261 |
| 2004 | 1,670,451 | 1,007,278 |
| 2003 | 1,665,734 | 543,874 |
| 2002 | 1,690,399 | 633,512 |
| 2001 | 1,725,005 | 592,368 |
| 2000 | 1,679,840 | 639,349 |
| 1999 | 1,659,178 | 697,485 |
| 1998 | 1,816,928 | 664,969 |
| 1997 | 2,070,888 | 935,137 |
| 1996 | 2,281,817 | 1,100,651 |
| 1995 | 2,096,416 | 735,848 |
| 1994 | 2,167,572 | 985,221 |
| 1993 | 2,466,660 | 1,191,778 |
SourceTexas Railroad Commission production records, added up by county and calendar year. Oil includes condensate; gas includes casinghead gas. The year in progress is left out until it is complete.
The biggest leases in Cooke County
Under each volume: change on the year before.
74,535bbl oil−13%
29,443bbl oil−15%
26,288bbl oiln/a
20,315bbl oil−15%
19,218bbl oil−1%
14,880bbl oil−9%
12,898bbl oil−2%
12,898bbl oil−2%
12,775bbl oil−13%
12,088bbl oil+1%
10,714bbl oil−14%
10,292bbl oil+88%
10,081bbl oil+384%
213,568mcf gas−7%
9,033bbl oil−12%
204,965mcf gas−20%
8,195bbl oil−4%
7,796bbl oil−15%
7,576bbl oil+221%
7,264bbl oil+74%
146,382mcf gas−9%
6,158bbl oil+21%
6,055bbl oil−12%
136,372mcf gas−3%
5,806bbl oil−29%
Showing 25 of 150 (the 150 largest of 688), ranked by output value.
SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.
Who runs the leases, and what they produce
Operators in Cooke County, by oil
WFW Production Company leads
- WFW Production Company, Inc.45 leases123kbbl
- Sydri Operating, LLC13 leases113kbbl
- Felderhoff Production Company43 leases73.9kbbl
- BLS Production Co., Inc.36 leases73.9kbbl
- EOG Resources, Inc.177 leases60.3kbbl
- SNR Operating, LLC6 leases37.9kbbl
- Seitz, J. R. & Adam, Ltd.25 leases37.8kbbl
- Jones, L. E. Operating, Inc.18 leases37.2kbbl
Fields in Cooke County, by oil
Cooke County Regular leads
- Cooke County Regular250 leases · District 09 · Field 20350001280kbbl
- Walnut Bend (Consolidated)1 lease · District 09 · Field 9491113074.5kbbl
- Newark, East (Barnett Shale)221 leases · District 09 · Field 6528020065.4kbbl
- Sivells Bend10 leases · District 09 · Field 8381600159.3kbbl
- Voth12 leases · District 09 · Field 9416900140.7kbbl
- Woodbine11 leases · District 09 · Field 9850500126.3kbbl
- Walnut Bend (Winger)2 leases · District 09 · Field 9491167622.3kbbl
- Dangle2 leases · District 09 · Field 2300500121.1kbbl
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Recent drilling permits in Cooke County
KNIGHT #1D
new drill · Oleum Partners, LLC · Cooke County
Permit 0919853 · Nov 13, 2026
SCHNIEDERJAN #1
new drill · Felderhoff Production Company · Cooke County
Permit 0919730 · Oct 28, 2026
OPLLC 4-6H GAS UNIT #6H
new drill · horizontal · Oleum Partners, LLC · Cooke County
Permit 0919329 · Oct 20, 2026
OPLLC 4-5H GAS UNIT #5H
new drill · horizontal · Oleum Partners, LLC · Cooke County
Permit 0919328 · Oct 20, 2026
VESTAL #37
new drill · V & H Oil, L.P. · Cooke County
Permit 0918033 · Sep 11, 2026
TRUBENBACH #1
new drill · Felderhoff Production Company · Cooke County
Permit 0917947 · Aug 20, 2026