Quick answer: Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P. has 72 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (-72.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Taylor (27.8% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (52.6%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | — |
| 2018 | 10 | 119 |
| 2019 | 7 | — |
| 2020 | 16 | 119 |
| 2021 | 5 | — |
| 2022 | 9 | — |
| 2023 | 3 | — |
| 2025 | 12 | 115 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Taylor (TX) | 20 | 27.8% |
| Midland (TX) | 9 | 12.5% |
| Eastland (TX) | 7 | 9.7% |
| Falls (TX) | 6 | 8.3% |
| Callahan (TX) | 4 | 5.6% |
| Howard (TX) | 4 | 5.6% |
| Mclennan (TX) | 4 | 5.6% |
| Nolan (TX) | 4 | 5.6% |
| Nueces (TX) | 3 | 4.2% |
| Robertson (TX) | 3 | 4.2% |
| All other counties | 8 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 30 | 52.6% |
| Bend Arch | 8 | 14% |
| East Texas Basin | 4 | 7% |
| Ouachita Folded Belt | 4 | 7% |
| Fort Worth Syncline | 3 | 5.3% |
| All other / unclassified | 8 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 563 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 5.8% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 0% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 115 ft vs 119 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.
Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P. has 72 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (-72.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Taylor (27.8% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (52.6%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 563 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 5.8% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 115 ft, versus 119 ft on earlier permits (-3.4%).
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.