Quick answer: Chesapeake Operating, Inc. has 251 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 Dimmit (24.3% of permits) and leading target is Austin Chalk (66.7%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 32 | 5,765 |
| 2018 | 36 | 9,835 |
| 2019 | 88 | 5,435 |
| 2020 | 51 | 8,024 |
| 2022 | 32 | — |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 12 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dimmit (TX) | 61 | 24.3% |
| La Salle (TX) | 59 | 23.5% |
| Burleson (TX) | 43 | 17.1% |
| Webb (TX) | 31 | 12.4% |
| Mcmullen (TX) | 24 | 9.6% |
| Kingfisher (OK) | 7 | 2.8% |
| Major (OK) | 7 | 2.8% |
| Washington (TX) | 4 | 1.6% |
| Brazos (TX) | 3 | 1.2% |
| Robertson (TX) | 3 | 1.2% |
| All other counties | 9 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 58 | 66.7% |
| Anadarko Basin | 21 | 24.1% |
| Eagle Ford | 4 | 4.6% |
| All other / unclassified | 4 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 127 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 437 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 19.9% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 6% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 6,021 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.
Chesapeake Operating, Inc. has 251 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 Dimmit (24.3% of permits) and leading target is Austin Chalk (66.7%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 127 days and from spud to first reported production 437 days. 19.9% 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.