Quick answer: Legacy Reserves Operating LP has 43 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 0 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Shelby (23.3% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (61.5%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | 8,205 |
| 2019 | 8 | — |
| 2020 | 5 | — |
| 2021 | 3 | — |
| 2022 | 11 | 8,209 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,128 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 4 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shelby (TX) | 10 | 23.3% |
| Howard (TX) | 9 | 20.9% |
| Midland (TX) | 9 | 20.9% |
| Martin (TX) | 8 | 18.6% |
| Dawson (TX) | 5 | 11.6% |
| All other counties | 2 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 16 | 61.5% |
| Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert | 8 | 30.8% |
| All other / unclassified | 2 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 213 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 62 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 48.8% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 19% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 8,205 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.
Legacy Reserves Operating LP has 43 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 0 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Shelby (23.3% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (61.5%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 213 days and from spud to first reported production 62 days. 48.8% 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.