Quick answer: Bkv Barnett, LLC has 169 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 31 of them in the last 12 complete months (+34.8% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Wise (52.1% of permits) and leading target is Fort Worth Syncline (57.1%).
The most recent permit month is the current, partial month, which the 12-month count does not include yet.
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | 4,834 |
| 2018 | 28 | 5,143 |
| 2019 | 12 | 6,698 |
| 2022 | 32 | 6,759 |
| 2023 | 16 | 8,626 |
| 2024 | 13 | 9,145 |
| 2025 | 34 | 9,660 |
| 2026 | 20 | 4,285 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 3 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth Syncline | 92 | 57.1% |
| Barnett | 69 | 42.9% |
| Median permit → spud | 63 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 74 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 89.1% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 100% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 9,156 ft vs 5,704 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.
Bkv Barnett, LLC has 169 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 31 of them in the last 12 complete months (+34.8% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Wise (52.1% of permits) and leading target is Fort Worth Syncline (57.1%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 63 days and from spud to first reported production 74 days. 89.1% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 9,156 ft, versus 5,704 ft on earlier permits (+60.5%).
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.