Quick answer: Lance Ruffel Oil & Gas LLC has 47 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 8 of them in the last 12 complete months (+166.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Seminole (29.8% of permits) and leading target is Chautauqua Platform (72.3%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | — |
| 2018 | 3 | — |
| 2019 | 6 | — |
| 2020 | 4 | — |
| 2022 | 5 | — |
| 2023 | 9 | — |
| 2025 | 4 | — |
| 2026 | 7 | — |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 3 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seminole (OK) | 14 | 29.8% |
| Payne (OK) | 12 | 25.5% |
| Garvin (OK) | 6 | 12.8% |
| Garfield (OK) | 4 | 8.5% |
| Mc Clain (OK) | 4 | 8.5% |
| Noble (OK) | 4 | 8.5% |
| All other counties | 3 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chautauqua Platform | 34 | 72.3% |
| South Oklahoma Folded Belt | 7 | 14.9% |
| Anadarko Basin | 4 | 8.5% |
| All other / unclassified | 2 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 30 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 46 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 92.3% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 30.6% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 550 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 2026-09-29.
Lance Ruffel Oil & Gas LLC has 47 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 8 of them in the last 12 complete months (+166.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Seminole (29.8% of permits) and leading target is Chautauqua Platform (72.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 30 days and from spud to first reported production 46 days. 92.3% 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.