Quick answer: Mercury Operating, LLC has 35 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 Andrews (74.3% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (77.3%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 16 | 143 |
| 2019 | 12 | 127 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 5 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Andrews (TX) | 26 | 74.3% |
| All other counties | 9 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 17 | 77.3% |
| All other / unclassified | 5 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 39 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 20% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 14.3% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 142 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.
Mercury Operating, LLC has 35 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 Andrews (74.3% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (77.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 39 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 20% 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.