Quick answer: Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC has 1,190 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 81 of them in the last 12 complete months (-22.1% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Scurry (50.6% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (58.9%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 156 | 208 |
| 2018 | 127 | 539 |
| 2019 | 125 | 439 |
| 2020 | 105 | 586 |
| 2021 | 114 | 839 |
| 2022 | 135 | 665 |
| 2023 | 124 | 908 |
| 2024 | 123 | 947 |
| 2025 | 93 | 935 |
| 2026 | 77 | 918 |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Scurry (TX) | 602 | 50.6% |
| Pecos (TX) | 531 | 44.6% |
| Borden (TX) | 8 | 0.7% |
| Nueces (TX) | 7 | 0.6% |
| Travis (TX) | 7 | 0.6% |
| Crane (TX) | 5 | 0.4% |
| Jasper (TX) | 4 | 0.3% |
| Jefferson (TX) | 4 | 0.3% |
| Sabine (TX) | 4 | 0.3% |
| Fayette (TX) | 3 | 0.3% |
| All other counties | 15 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 661 | 58.9% |
| Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert | 432 | 38.5% |
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 13 | 1.2% |
| Austin Chalk | 7 | 0.6% |
| East Texas Basin | 3 | 0.3% |
| Ouachita Folded Belt | 3 | 0.3% |
| All other / unclassified | 3 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 71 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 1,882 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 87.8% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 79.4% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 918 ft vs 633 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.
Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC has 1,190 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 81 of them in the last 12 complete months (-22.1% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Scurry (50.6% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (58.9%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 71 days and from spud to first reported production 1,882 days. 87.8% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 918 ft, versus 633 ft on earlier permits (+45.0%).
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.