Quick answer: Dahco Operating, LLC has 19 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Live Oak (36.8% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (88.2%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8 | 132 |
| 2023 | 3 | — |
| 2024 | 4 | 138 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Live Oak (TX) | 7 | 36.8% |
| Bee (TX) | 6 | 31.6% |
| Starr (TX) | 4 | 21.1% |
| All other counties | 2 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 15 | 88.2% |
| All other / unclassified | 2 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 11 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 45 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 66.7% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 83.3% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 132 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.
Dahco Operating, LLC has 19 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Live Oak (36.8% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (88.2%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 11 days and from spud to first reported production 45 days. 66.7% 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.