Quick answer: Empire Texas Operating LLC has 21 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 13 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Houston (52.4% of permits) and leading target is Austin Chalk (95.2%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | — |
| 2026 | 13 | 371 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 20 | 95.2% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 59 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 63 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 100% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 85% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 371 ft vs — 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.
Empire Texas Operating LLC has 21 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 13 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Houston (52.4% of permits) and leading target is Austin Chalk (95.2%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 59 days and from spud to first reported production 63 days. 100% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 371 ft.
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.