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Erath County, Texas oil and gas

  • 1,056,038mcf gas in the last 12 months
  • 125producing leases
  • 327wells on the map
  • 0drilling locations in two years

Oil wells and drilling locations in Erath County

Map of Erath County, Texas, with 327 oil and gas wells and 0 recent drilling locations as dots.
  • Drilling locations0Permits issued in the last two years
  • Producing wells138On a lease reporting production now
  • Not producing120Shut in, inactive or no lease on record
  • Plugged69The 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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327 wells with a location on the state's map (138 producing, 120 not producing, 69 plugged) and 0 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/erath-county-tx">Erath County, Texas oil and gas wells</a> by Royalty Clerk, from Railroad Commission of Texas records</p>

Wells near a town: Dublin · Stephenville · Newest drilling permits in Erath County · Wells by ZIP code

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

Erath County reported 1.1 million mcf of gas and 1,046 barrels of oil in the last 12 months. That ranks 147th of 197 Texas counties by gas.

County dossier

1,056,038mcf gas, last 12 months−13% 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
125of 315 on record
Operators
20
Fields
13

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This county

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Erath County · RRC district 7B
Oil, last 12 months
1,046 bbl
Share of Texas gas
<0.1%
Wells on record
329on leases with production reports
Data through
Jul 2026

Five years of output in Erath County

Gas output in Erath County fell 13% over the last 12 months

1.1M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.2M mcf a year earlier. Peak Dec 2021: 161k mcf.

Gas output in Erath County fell 13% over the last 12 months1.1M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.2M mcf a year earlier. Peak Dec 2021: 161k mcf.Gas, mcf per month050k100k150k200kPeak 161k (Dec 21)90.5k20222023202420252026
Gas output in Erath County fell 13% over the last 12 months1.1M mcf through Jul 2026, against 1.2M mcf a year earlier. Peak Dec 2021: 161k mcf.Gas, mcf per month050k100k150k200kPeak 161k (Dec 21)90.5k'22'23'24'25'26

Oil output in Erath County fell 6% over the last 12 months

1,046 bbl through Jul 2026, against 1,111 bbl a year earlier. Peak Jul 2025: 488 bbl.

Oil output in Erath County fell 6% over the last 12 months1,046 bbl through Jul 2026, against 1,111 bbl a year earlier. Peak Jul 2025: 488 bbl.Oil, bbl per month0100200300400500Peak 488 (Jul 25)720222023202420252026
Oil output in Erath County fell 6% over the last 12 months1,046 bbl through Jul 2026, against 1,111 bbl a year earlier. Peak Jul 2025: 488 bbl.Oil, bbl per month0100200300400500Peak 488 (Jul 25)7'22'23'24'25'26

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

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Erath 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 2008, at 54,868 bbl. The highest year for gas was 2009, at 10,457,343 mcf.

Erath County, Texas: oil and gas produced each year, 1993 to 2025
YearOilbblGasmcf
20251,3311,119,975
20248881,285,485
20231,9511,546,798
20221,3391,763,026
20211,3701,771,129
20202,1971,917,714
20193,1832,326,477
20183,1692,376,937
20174,8922,695,126
20164,8063,039,393
20156,5734,025,274
20147,7644,444,811
20138,7275,060,350
201213,2226,044,463
201116,4786,858,309
201023,4588,049,133
200944,44310,457,343
200854,8689,928,672
200719,0705,739,159
200615,5693,984,168
20055,1212,064,093
20044,3881,987,070
20034,8092,282,038
20025,1422,668,586
20011,9292,815,954
20008852,931,653
19991,2773,017,230
19981,3523,299,186
19973,8793,401,726
19962,5142,891,181
19953,6173,023,850
19945,0123,225,783
19935,2023,607,373

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 Erath County

Under each volume: change on the year before.

Showing 25 of 125, ranked by output value.

SourceTexas Railroad Commission Production Data Query.