Quick answer: Hydrocarbon Operating, Inc. has 13 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 4 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Lavaca (61.5% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (66.7%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | — |
| 2026 | 4 | — |
| Other years combined (4 years) | 6 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 8 | 66.7% |
| All other / unclassified | 4 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 99 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 136 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 77.8% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 100% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 124 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.
Hydrocarbon Operating, Inc. has 13 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 4 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Lavaca (61.5% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (66.7%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 99 days and from spud to first reported production 136 days. 77.8% 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.