Quick answer: Extech Operating, LLC has 16 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 Montague (31.3% of permits) and leading target is Fort Worth Syncline (53.3%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 118 |
| 2023 | 3 | — |
| 2024 | 4 | 350 |
| Other years combined (5 years) | 6 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Montague (TX) | 5 | 31.3% |
| Clay (TX) | 4 | 25% |
| Haskell (TX) | 3 | 18.8% |
| Jack (TX) | 3 | 18.8% |
| All other counties | 1 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth Syncline | 8 | 53.3% |
| Permian Basin | 4 | 26.7% |
| Barnett | 3 | 20% |
| Median permit → spud | 50 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 61 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 100% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 71.4% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 470 ft vs 118 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 2026-10-18.
Extech Operating, LLC has 16 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 Montague (31.3% of permits) and leading target is Fort Worth Syncline (53.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 50 days and from spud to first reported production 61 days. 100% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 470 ft, versus 118 ft on earlier permits (+298.3%).
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.