Quick answer: Arete Operating Company, LLC has 8 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 2 of them in the last 12 complete months (-33.3% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Frio (62.5% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (50%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 5,074 |
| Other years combined (3 years) | 5 | — |
Years with fewer than three permits are combined with at least one other year, so no single year's count is published.
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 4 | 50% |
| Austin Chalk | 3 | 37.5% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 52 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 42 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 100% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 83.3% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 4,972 ft vs — 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 2026-11-01.
Arete Operating Company, LLC has 8 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 2 of them in the last 12 complete months (-33.3% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Frio (62.5% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (50%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 52 days and from spud to first reported production 42 days. 100% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 4,972 ft.
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.