Quick answer: Merit Energy Company has 153 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (-83.3% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Texas (19% of permits) and leading target is Vicksburg (27.5%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 36 | 4,695 |
| 2018 | 23 | 396 |
| 2019 | 17 | 252 |
| 2020 | 18 | 858 |
| 2021 | 18 | 461 |
| 2022 | 17 | 291 |
| 2024 | 8 | 146 |
| 2025 | 6 | 767 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Texas (OK) | 29 | 19% |
| Hidalgo (TX) | 28 | 18.3% |
| Live Oak (TX) | 21 | 13.7% |
| Pittsburg (OK) | 15 | 9.8% |
| Harrison (TX) | 13 | 8.5% |
| Starr (TX) | 13 | 8.5% |
| Cherokee (TX) | 6 | 3.9% |
| Coal (OK) | 6 | 3.9% |
| Zapata (TX) | 5 | 3.3% |
| Brooks (TX) | 4 | 2.6% |
| All other counties | 13 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Vicksburg | 41 | 27.5% |
| Anadarko Basin | 28 | 18.8% |
| Travis Peak | 19 | 12.8% |
| Woodford-Caney | 17 | 11.4% |
| Arkoma Basin | 13 | 8.7% |
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 11 | 7.4% |
| All other / unclassified | 20 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 31 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 51 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 90.8% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 79.1% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 767 ft vs 736 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.
Merit Energy Company has 153 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (-83.3% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Texas (19% of permits) and leading target is Vicksburg (27.5%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 31 days and from spud to first reported production 51 days. 90.8% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 767 ft, versus 736 ft on earlier permits (+4.2%).
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.