Quick answer: El Paso Natural Gas Company has 24 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 Culberson (95.8% of permits) and leading target is Avalon-Bone Spring (43.8%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 157 |
| 2018 | 5 | — |
| 2019 | 9 | — |
| 2020 | 6 | — |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Culberson (TX) | 23 | 95.8% |
| All other counties | 1 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Avalon-Bone Spring | 7 | 43.8% |
| Morrow | 5 | 31.3% |
| Barnett-Woodford | 3 | 18.8% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | — days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 0% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | — |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 157 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.
El Paso Natural Gas Company has 24 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 Culberson (95.8% of permits) and leading target is Avalon-Bone Spring (43.8%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is — days and from spud to first reported production — days. 0% 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.