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Young County, Texas
Oil & gas activity from Railroad Commission records · permits 2026-08-26 · completions 2026-02-13 · well status 2026-09
Drilling permits
25
10 last year
Producing wells
1,810
of 15,949 wellbores
Mineral Activity Report · $79 A full read of activity around your Young County tract
Recent permits, completions, active operators, horizontal mix, nearby producing wellbores, production on matched leases, and the Rule 37/38 exceptions on record through 2024 — in one report, with sources.
Weighing an offer to sell your Young County minerals?
Buyers make unsolicited offers on mineral rights constantly, and the activity on record here is
the context that tells you whether an offer is well-timed. Young County has
10 new drilling permits in the last year,
1,810 producing wells, 0 horizontal
permits and 16 active operators on record. New drilling — especially horizontal wells
that can drain a tract from a mile away — is what moves both a mineral tract's value and your
leverage in a sale. This page shows that activity free; watching the county tells you the moment it
changes, so an offer never lands before you know what's driving it.
This is public Railroad Commission activity — the same data a mineral buyer looks
at, in your hands. It is not an appraisal, and not a record of who owns the minerals.
Recent drilling permits in Young County
| Filed | Operator | Lease | Type | Flags |
|---|
| 2026-08-19 | BORDERLINE OPERATING CORP. | LOVING RANCH | Drill | |
| 2026-08-17 | RUTHSON ENERGY, INC. | S HUGHES UNIT | Drill | |
| 2026-07-29 | B.O.L.D. OIL AND GAS, LLC | BULLOCK 280 | Drill | |
| 2026-07-16 | RIDGE OIL COMPANY | SECTION 606 'A' | Recompletion | |
| 2026-07-13 | MAMMOTH OPERATING LLC | MCCLURG, M. L. | Drill | |
| 2026-07-07 | ROGERS DRILLING CO., INC. | S. R. DOZIER | Drill | |
| 2026-06-19 | BORDERLINE OPERATING CORP. | SLATER UNIT | Re-enter | |
| 2026-05-05 | KORNYE-TILLMAN COMPANY | PETTUS | Re-enter | |
| 2026-04-24 | B.O.L.D. OIL AND GAS, LLC | DUKE | Drill | |
| 2025-12-10 | STOVALL OPERATING CO. | DEADMAN | Drill | |
| 2023-12-19 | GANNETT OPERATING LLC | CHRISTIE | Drill | |
| 2023-12-15 | S.B. STREET OPERATING, INC. | HARRISON | Drill | |
| 2023-11-28 | STOVALL OPERATING CO. | GRAHAM-HARRISON | Drill | |
| 2021-12-24 | LEWIS HEIRS 480, LLC | BOONE | Drill | |
| 2021-12-24 | LEWIS HEIRS 480, LLC | BOONE | Drill | |
| 2021-12-03 | STOVALL OPERATING CO. | GRAHAM-EDDLEMAN | Drill | |
| 2021-11-15 | B.O.L.D. OIL AND GAS, LLC | STEWART DEEP | Drill | Rule 37 |
| 2020-12-21 | ROGERS DRILLING CO., INC. | YARRUM | Drill | |
| 2020-12-07 | RIDGE OIL COMPANY | IMU | Drill | |
| 2020-12-05 | G. A. HAWKINS OPERATING, LLC | MOLLIE ELKINS | Recompletion | |
| 2020-12-02 | PALMER, MIKE OIL | KAISER | Drill | |
| 2020-12-01 | RIDGE OIL COMPANY | IMU | Drill | |
| 2020-11-21 | CRAIG, CARL | WILLIAMS | Drill | |
| 2018-12-20 | GUIDANCE OIL DEVELOPERS,INC.(1) | KUNKEL | Drill | |
| 2017-12-05 | RAY HERRING OPERATING CO., LLC | WOODWARD FARMS | Recompletion | |
Who is drilling in Young County
16 companies hold drilling permits in Young County, Texas. These are the ones on record, by permits filed. Open a company to see every county it drills in and every permit it has filed.
| Operator | Permits here | Horizontal | Last filed | Wells on record |
|---|
| B.O.L.D. OIL AND GAS, LLC | 3 | 0 | 2026-07-29 | 35 |
| RIDGE OIL COMPANY | 3 | 0 | 2026-07-16 | 388 |
| STOVALL OPERATING CO. | 3 | 0 | 2025-12-10 | 252 |
| BORDERLINE OPERATING CORP. | 2 | 0 | 2026-08-19 | 252 |
| ROGERS DRILLING CO., INC. | 2 | 0 | 2026-07-07 | 84 |
| LEWIS HEIRS 480, LLC | 2 | 0 | 2021-12-24 | 27 |
| RUTHSON ENERGY, INC. | 1 | 0 | 2026-08-17 | 11 |
| MAMMOTH OPERATING LLC | 1 | 0 | 2026-07-13 | — |
| KORNYE-TILLMAN COMPANY | 1 | 0 | 2026-05-05 | 65 |
| GANNETT OPERATING LLC | 1 | 0 | 2023-12-19 | 49 |
| S.B. STREET OPERATING, INC. | 1 | 0 | 2023-12-15 | 444 |
| G. A. HAWKINS OPERATING, LLC | 1 | 0 | 2020-12-05 | 50 |
| PALMER, MIKE OIL | 1 | 0 | 2020-12-02 | 114 |
| CRAIG, CARL | 1 | 0 | 2020-11-21 | 50 |
| GUIDANCE OIL DEVELOPERS,INC.(1) | 1 | 0 | 2018-12-20 | 76 |
| RAY HERRING OPERATING CO., LLC | 1 | 0 | 2017-12-05 | 143 |
This report compiles and structures publicly available oil & gas records from the Railroad Commission of Texas — drilling permits, completions, well status, and lease production. We monitor development activity and public filings near a location you tell us about; we do NOT determine mineral ownership, confirm what you own, or provide legal, tax, or investment advice. Nothing here replaces a title opinion, a landman, or reading the official RRC filing. Activity is mapped to the operator-filed permit surface location (NAD27, precision disclaimed by the RRC), not your mineral tract. Data is current only as of the source vintage shown on the page. Our total liability for any report is capped at the amount you paid for it. Found an error? Reply to any email and a human will correct it.