Quick answer: Birch Operations, Inc. has 570 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 7 of them in the last 12 complete months (0.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Howard (69.6% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (100%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 18 | — |
| 2019 | 107 | 11,151 |
| 2020 | 123 | 11,483 |
| 2021 | 150 | 11,161 |
| 2022 | 97 | 10,499 |
| 2023 | 41 | 10,802 |
| 2024 | 21 | 7,890 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 13 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Howard (TX) | 397 | 69.6% |
| Martin (TX) | 135 | 23.7% |
| Dawson (TX) | 37 | 6.5% |
| All other counties | 1 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 459 | 100% |
| Median permit → spud | 10 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 287 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 79.9% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 95.1% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 7,335 ft vs 10,873 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.
Birch Operations, Inc. has 570 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 7 of them in the last 12 complete months (0.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Howard (69.6% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (100%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 10 days and from spud to first reported production 287 days. 79.9% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 7,335 ft, versus 10,873 ft on earlier permits (-32.5%).
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.