Quick answer: Apache Corporation has 2,332 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 174 of them in the last 12 complete months (-5.9% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Reeves (34% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (53.4%).
The most recent permit month is the current, partial month, which the 12-month count does not include yet.
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 280 | 6,853 |
| 2018 | 452 | 6,731 |
| 2019 | 396 | 7,580 |
| 2020 | 103 | 8,845 |
| 2021 | 158 | 10,312 |
| 2022 | 211 | 9,863 |
| 2023 | 166 | 10,075 |
| 2024 | 251 | 10,486 |
| 2025 | 128 | 10,215 |
| 2026 | 150 | 8,891 |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Reeves (TX) | 793 | 34% |
| Midland (TX) | 408 | 17.5% |
| Upton (TX) | 268 | 11.5% |
| Ward (TX) | 256 | 11% |
| Howard (TX) | 178 | 7.6% |
| Loving (TX) | 87 | 3.7% |
| Winkler (TX) | 83 | 3.6% |
| Reagan (TX) | 75 | 3.2% |
| Glasscock (TX) | 45 | 1.9% |
| Andrews (TX) | 34 | 1.5% |
| All other counties | 105 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 1,189 | 53.4% |
| Avalon-Bone Spring | 542 | 24.4% |
| Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert | 280 | 12.6% |
| Barnett-Woodford | 199 | 8.9% |
| Anadarko Basin | 6 | 0.3% |
| Austin Chalk | 5 | 0.2% |
| All other / unclassified | 4 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 32 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 175 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 92.6% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 92.4% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 9,916 ft vs 8,320 ft |
Groups with fewer than three permits are folded into "all other". Computed by Valor from public oil and gas data; refreshed weekly. Data as of 2026-09-29.
Apache Corporation has 2,332 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 174 of them in the last 12 complete months (-5.9% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Reeves (34% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (53.4%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 32 days and from spud to first reported production 175 days. 92.6% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 9,916 ft, versus 8,320 ft on earlier permits (+19.2%).
No. Valor publishes permit activity as statistics — counts by year, county and formation groupings of three or more permits, lateral trends and cycle times — rather than individual permit records.
These statistics are computed by Valor from public oil and gas data. © Valor, all rights reserved.