Quick answer: Contango Resources, LLC has 33 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 Pawnee (21.2% of permits) and leading target is Chautauqua Platform (71.9%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | 541 |
| 2019 | 5 | — |
| 2021 | 4 | — |
| 2022 | 3 | — |
| 2023 | 6 | — |
| 2024 | 3 | — |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 4 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pawnee (OK) | 7 | 21.2% |
| Logan (OK) | 6 | 18.2% |
| Garfield (OK) | 5 | 15.2% |
| Noble (OK) | 5 | 15.2% |
| Payne (OK) | 3 | 9.1% |
| All other counties | 7 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chautauqua Platform | 23 | 71.9% |
| Anadarko Basin | 8 | 25% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 19 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 221 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 90.9% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 23.3% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 1,010 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 2026-10-18.
Contango Resources, LLC has 33 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 Pawnee (21.2% of permits) and leading target is Chautauqua Platform (71.9%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 19 days and from spud to first reported production 221 days. 90.9% 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.