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Callon Petroleum Company Drilling Permit Activity

Quick answer: Callon Petroleum Company has 157 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 0 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Reeves (23.6% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (55.7%).

0
permits, last 12 complete months
—
vs prior 12 months
157
permits, last 10 years
March 2024
most recent permit month

Permits by year

2017: 8 permits 2017 2018: 13 permits 2018 2019: 16 permits 2019 2020: 36 permits 2020 2021: 25 permits 2021 2022: 37 permits 2022 2023: 10 permits 2023 2024: 8 permits 2024
Callon Petroleum Company drilling permits per year (years with 3+ permits) (permits)
Callon Petroleum Company drilling permits per year (years with 3+ permits)
Periodpermits
20178
201813
201916
202036
202125
202237
202310
20248
YearPermitsMedian lateral (ft)
201786,013
2018137,144
201916—
20203610,121
202125—
2022377,475
2023108,410
20248—

Where it permits

CountyPermitsShare
Reeves (TX)3723.6%
Ward (TX)3019.1%
Howard (TX)2918.5%
La Salle (TX)2214%
Mcmullen (TX)1710.8%
Midland (TX)138.3%
Borden (TX)63.8%
All other counties3—

What it targets

Formation / playPermitsShare
Permian Basin3455.7%
Avalon-Bone Spring1829.5%
Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx)813.1%
All other / unclassified1—

Permit-to-production timing

Median permit → spud208 days
Median spud → first reported production— days
Permits older than 12 months that were spudded31.8%
Spuds older than 12 months reporting production0%
Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier— ft vs 7,579 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.

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Callon Petroleum Company Permits — FAQ

Callon Petroleum Company has 157 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 0 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Reeves (23.6% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (55.7%).

Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 208 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 31.8% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.

There are not enough permits with a recorded lateral length to compute a trend.

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.