Quick answer: Dry Creek Operating, LLC has 10 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Jack (70% of permits) and leading target is Fort Worth Syncline (100%).
The most recent permit month is the current, partial month, which the 12-month count does not include yet.
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 106 |
| 2026 | 4 | 104 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 3 | — |
Years with fewer than three permits are combined with at least one other year, so no single year's count is published.
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth Syncline | 9 | 100% |
| Median permit → spud | 19 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 77 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 100% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 85.7% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 104 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 2026-09-29.
Dry Creek Operating, LLC has 10 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Jack (70% of permits) and leading target is Fort Worth Syncline (100%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 19 days and from spud to first reported production 77 days. 100% 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.