Quick answer: Faulconer Energy, LLC has 46 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 11 of them in the last 12 complete months (0.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Smith (71.7% of permits) and leading target is Cotton Valley (78.3%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | — |
| 2021 | 4 | — |
| 2023 | 7 | 288 |
| 2024 | 5 | 411 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1,871 |
| 2026 | 11 | 235 |
| Other years combined (3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith (TX) | 33 | 71.7% |
| Harrison (TX) | 5 | 10.9% |
| Gregg (TX) | 3 | 6.5% |
| All other counties | 5 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cotton Valley | 36 | 78.3% |
| Travis Peak | 9 | 19.6% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | — days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 37 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 100% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 100% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 260 ft vs 392 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.
Faulconer Energy, LLC has 46 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 11 of them in the last 12 complete months (0.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Smith (71.7% of permits) and leading target is Cotton Valley (78.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is — days and from spud to first reported production 37 days. 100% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 260 ft, versus 392 ft on earlier permits (-33.7%).
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.