Quick answer: Cooper Oil & Gas, LLC has 37 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 2 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Throckmorton (75.7% of permits) and leading target is Barnett (69.4%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | — |
| 2018 | 6 | 111 |
| 2019 | 4 | — |
| 2020 | 3 | — |
| 2021 | 8 | 116 |
| 2023 | 4 | 111 |
| Other years combined (3 years) | 5 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Throckmorton (TX) | 28 | 75.7% |
| Crane (TX) | 3 | 8.1% |
| Young (TX) | 3 | 8.1% |
| All other counties | 3 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Barnett | 25 | 69.4% |
| Bend Arch | 7 | 19.4% |
| Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert | 3 | 8.3% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 14 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 44 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 71.4% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 80.8% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 113 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.
Cooper Oil & Gas, LLC has 37 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 2 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Throckmorton (75.7% of permits) and leading target is Barnett (69.4%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 14 days and from spud to first reported production 44 days. 71.4% 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.