Quick answer: Atmos Pipeline - Texas has 51 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 9 of them in the last 12 complete months (-25.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Clay (13.7% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (27.7%).
The most recent permit month is the current, partial month, which the 12-month count does not include yet.
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | 147 |
| 2023 | 7 | 115 |
| 2024 | 7 | 116 |
| 2025 | 17 | 117 |
| 2026 | 6 | — |
| Other years combined (3 years) | 4 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clay (TX) | 7 | 13.7% |
| Anderson (TX) | 5 | 9.8% |
| Henderson (TX) | 5 | 9.8% |
| Haskell (TX) | 3 | 5.9% |
| Taylor (TX) | 3 | 5.9% |
| All other counties | 28 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 13 | 27.7% |
| East Texas Basin | 8 | 17% |
| Cotton Valley | 6 | 12.8% |
| Fort Worth Syncline | 6 | 12.8% |
| Bend Arch | 5 | 10.6% |
| Barnett | 4 | 8.5% |
| All other / unclassified | 5 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 34 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 51.3% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 11.1% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 118 ft vs 127 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.
Atmos Pipeline - Texas has 51 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 9 of them in the last 12 complete months (-25.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Clay (13.7% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (27.7%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 34 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 51.3% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 118 ft, versus 127 ft on earlier permits (-7.1%).
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.