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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

Map of Cooke County, Texas, with 3,853 oil and gas wells and 52 recent drilling locations as dots.
  • 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.

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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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Wells near a town: Gainesville · Lake Kiowa · Lindsay · Muenster · Newest drilling permits in Cooke County · Wells by ZIP code

Cooke County is one of the 25 counties of the Barnett Shale

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.

County dossier

793,135bbl oil, last 12 months−4% vs prior year

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

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This county

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Cooke County · RRC district 09
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.

Oil output in Cooke County fell 4% over the last 12 months793k bbl through Jul 2026, against 824k bbl a year earlier. Peak Jan 2022: 89k bbl.Oil, bbl per month025k50k75k100kPeak 89k (Jan 22)64.4k20222023202420252026
Oil output in Cooke County fell 4% over the last 12 months793k bbl through Jul 2026, against 824k bbl a year earlier. Peak Jan 2022: 89k bbl.Oil, bbl per month025k50k75k100kPeak 89k (Jan 22)64.4k'22'23'24'25'26

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.

Gas output in Cooke County held steady over the last 12 months8.5M mcf through Jul 2026, against 8.4M mcf a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 995k mcf.Gas, mcf per month0250k500k750k1MPeak 995k (Aug 21)739k20222023202420252026
Gas output in Cooke County held steady over the last 12 months8.5M mcf through Jul 2026, against 8.4M mcf a year earlier. Peak Aug 2021: 995k mcf.Gas, mcf per month0250k500k750k1MPeak 995k (Aug 21)739k'22'23'24'25'26

SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query, county totals, through Jul 2026, file dated Oct 20, 2026.

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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.

Cooke County, Texas: oil and gas produced each year, 1993 to 2025
YearOilbblGasmcf
2025815,8078,391,345
2024860,3118,878,976
2023920,7969,590,640
20221,002,36610,256,159
20211,036,54711,695,246
2020984,92312,044,088
20191,183,32613,253,166
20181,190,92714,431,406
20171,307,20916,336,579
20161,445,68418,604,723
20151,801,76923,814,985
20142,354,50125,858,254
20133,211,48424,309,882
20123,938,54425,257,852
20114,743,83615,712,519
20102,890,7377,216,209
20092,042,7154,843,510
20082,332,1024,879,581
20072,014,3812,785,543
20061,714,0441,868,282
20051,622,9271,325,261
20041,670,4511,007,278
20031,665,734543,874
20021,690,399633,512
20011,725,005592,368
20001,679,840639,349
19991,659,178697,485
19981,816,928664,969
19972,070,888935,137
19962,281,8171,100,651
19952,096,416735,848
19942,167,572985,221
19932,466,6601,191,778

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.

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

Recent drilling permits in Cooke County