Quick answer: Ardmore Production & Exploration Co has 22 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (-66.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Carter (86.4% of permits) and leading target is Woodford (68.2%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | — |
| 2019 | 3 | — |
| 2020 | 5 | — |
| 2021 | 3 | — |
| Other years combined (5 years) | 7 | — |
Years with fewer than three permits are combined with at least one other year, so no single year's count is published.
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Carter (OK) | 19 | 86.4% |
| All other counties | 3 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Woodford | 15 | 68.2% |
| South Oklahoma Folded Belt | 6 | 27.3% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 125 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 85.7% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 38.9% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 1,374 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.
Ardmore Production & Exploration Co has 22 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (-66.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Carter (86.4% of permits) and leading target is Woodford (68.2%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 125 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 85.7% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
There are not enough permits with a recorded lateral length to compute a trend.
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.