Quick answer: Aurora Resources Corporation has 40 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 8 of them in the last 12 complete months (+60.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Duval (52.5% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (63.2%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | 140 |
| 2020 | 4 | — |
| 2022 | 3 | — |
| 2023 | 4 | 135 |
| 2024 | 7 | 131 |
| 2025 | 4 | 131 |
| 2026 | 6 | 131 |
| 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.
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 24 | 63.2% |
| Wilcox Lobo | 9 | 23.7% |
| All other / unclassified | 5 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 24 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 163 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 72.7% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 69.2% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 131 ft vs 137 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.
Aurora Resources Corporation has 40 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 8 of them in the last 12 complete months (+60.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Duval (52.5% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (63.2%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 24 days and from spud to first reported production 163 days. 72.7% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 131 ft, versus 137 ft on earlier permits (-4.4%).
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.