Quick answer: Bluff Creek Petroleum, LLC has 73 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (-25.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Shackelford (64.4% of permits) and leading target is Bend Arch (40%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | — |
| 2018 | 8 | 114 |
| 2019 | 13 | 115 |
| 2020 | 6 | 114 |
| 2021 | 9 | 117 |
| 2022 | 11 | 116 |
| 2023 | 7 | 156 |
| 2024 | 5 | 187 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 6 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shackelford (TX) | 47 | 64.4% |
| Jones (TX) | 13 | 17.8% |
| Haskell (TX) | 8 | 11% |
| Throckmorton (TX) | 5 | 6.8% |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bend Arch | 26 | 40% |
| Barnett | 25 | 38.5% |
| Permian Basin | 14 | 21.5% |
| Median permit → spud | 20 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 45 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 67.1% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 84.8% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 229 ft vs 116 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 2026-11-01.
Bluff Creek Petroleum, LLC has 73 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (-25.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Shackelford (64.4% of permits) and leading target is Bend Arch (40%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 20 days and from spud to first reported production 45 days. 67.1% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 229 ft, versus 116 ft on earlier permits (+97.4%).
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.