Quick answer: Atlas Operating LLC has 247 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 10 of them in the last 12 complete months (+66.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Dimmit (29.1% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (34%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 48 | 424 |
| 2018 | 41 | 6,557 |
| 2019 | 46 | 144 |
| 2020 | 11 | 190 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2,927 |
| 2022 | 29 | 8,068 |
| 2023 | 11 | 192 |
| 2024 | 14 | 5,770 |
| 2025 | 6 | 9,641 |
| 2026 | 9 | 10,824 |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dimmit (TX) | 72 | 29.1% |
| Ector (TX) | 46 | 18.6% |
| Gaines (TX) | 43 | 17.4% |
| Crane (TX) | 15 | 6.1% |
| Grady (OK) | 11 | 4.5% |
| Upton (TX) | 9 | 3.6% |
| Burleson (TX) | 5 | 2% |
| Stonewall (TX) | 5 | 2% |
| Borden (TX) | 4 | 1.6% |
| Angelina (TX) | 3 | 1.2% |
| All other counties | 34 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 81 | 34% |
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 43 | 18.1% |
| Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert | 42 | 17.6% |
| Eagle Ford | 37 | 15.5% |
| Anadarko Basin | 13 | 5.5% |
| Travis Peak | 6 | 2.5% |
| All other / unclassified | 16 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 28 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 83 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 90.3% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 82.8% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 9,685 ft vs 500 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.
Atlas Operating LLC has 247 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 10 of them in the last 12 complete months (+66.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Dimmit (29.1% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (34%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 28 days and from spud to first reported production 83 days. 90.3% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 9,685 ft, versus 500 ft on earlier permits (+1837.0%).
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.