Quick answer: Kodiak Oil & Gas, Inc. has 210 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 8 of them in the last 12 complete months (-52.9% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Carter (76.7% of permits) and leading target is South Oklahoma Folded Belt (60.5%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 23 | — |
| 2018 | 18 | 550 |
| 2019 | 10 | — |
| 2020 | 37 | 418 |
| 2021 | 26 | — |
| 2022 | 33 | 322 |
| 2023 | 22 | 454 |
| 2024 | 18 | — |
| 2025 | 14 | 249 |
| 2026 | 8 | — |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Carter (OK) | 161 | 76.7% |
| Stephens (OK) | 20 | 9.5% |
| Grayson (TX) | 8 | 3.8% |
| Houston (TX) | 6 | 2.9% |
| Montague (TX) | 4 | 1.9% |
| Blaine (OK) | 3 | 1.4% |
| Noble (OK) | 3 | 1.4% |
| All other counties | 5 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| South Oklahoma Folded Belt | 127 | 60.5% |
| Woodford | 64 | 30.5% |
| East Texas Basin | 5 | 2.4% |
| Anadarko Basin | 4 | 1.9% |
| Chautauqua Platform | 4 | 1.9% |
| Fort Worth Syncline | 3 | 1.4% |
| All other / unclassified | 3 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 48 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 57 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 89.1% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 63.5% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 300 ft vs 400 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.
Kodiak Oil & Gas, Inc. has 210 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 8 of them in the last 12 complete months (-52.9% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Carter (76.7% of permits) and leading target is South Oklahoma Folded Belt (60.5%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 48 days and from spud to first reported production 57 days. 89.1% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 300 ft, versus 400 ft on earlier permits (-25.0%).
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.