Quick answer: Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. has 611 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 36 of them in the last 12 complete months (+300.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Yoakum (33.1% of permits) and leading target is Anadarko Basin (31.8%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 73 | 5,377 |
| 2018 | 76 | 918 |
| 2019 | 100 | 513 |
| 2020 | 50 | 979 |
| 2021 | 90 | 253 |
| 2022 | 110 | 875 |
| 2023 | 47 | 1,200 |
| 2024 | 15 | 2,494 |
| 2025 | 8 | 128 |
| 2026 | 36 | 590 |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Yoakum (TX) | 202 | 33.1% |
| Moore (TX) | 144 | 23.6% |
| Wilbarger (TX) | 55 | 9% |
| Throckmorton (TX) | 39 | 6.4% |
| Potter (TX) | 35 | 5.7% |
| Hockley (TX) | 21 | 3.4% |
| Panola (TX) | 21 | 3.4% |
| Tyler (TX) | 19 | 3.1% |
| Sherman (TX) | 16 | 2.6% |
| Hutchinson (TX) | 10 | 1.6% |
| All other counties | 49 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anadarko Basin | 193 | 31.8% |
| Permian Basin | 177 | 29.2% |
| Palo Duro Basin | 64 | 10.5% |
| Morrow | 63 | 10.4% |
| Barnett | 24 | 4% |
| Travis Peak | 19 | 3.1% |
| All other / unclassified | 67 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 30 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 44 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 97.9% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 95.4% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 276 ft vs 1,075 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.
Burk Royalty Co., Ltd. has 611 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 36 of them in the last 12 complete months (+300.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Yoakum (33.1% of permits) and leading target is Anadarko Basin (31.8%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 30 days and from spud to first reported production 44 days. 97.9% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 276 ft, versus 1,075 ft on earlier permits (-74.3%).
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.