Quick answer: Kingwood Exploration LLC has 20 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 Jefferson (65% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (100%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 | 398 |
| 2020 | 3 | — |
| 2022 | 4 | — |
| Other years combined (3 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) | 16 | 100% |
| Median permit → spud | 9 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 65 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 66.7% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 85.7% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 749 ft vs 403 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.
Kingwood Exploration LLC has 20 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 Jefferson (65% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (100%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 9 days and from spud to first reported production 65 days. 66.7% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 749 ft, versus 403 ft on earlier permits (+85.9%).
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.