Quick answer: Mewbourne Oil Company has 821 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 154 of them in the last 12 complete months (+11.6% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Loving (21.2% of permits) and leading target is Anadarko Basin (48.1%).
The most recent permit month is the current, partial month, which the 12-month count does not include yet.
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 60 | 4,791 |
| 2018 | 56 | 4,998 |
| 2019 | 46 | 9,370 |
| 2020 | 21 | 5,338 |
| 2021 | 59 | 10,033 |
| 2022 | 133 | 9,576 |
| 2023 | 79 | 10,075 |
| 2024 | 97 | 10,192 |
| 2025 | 139 | 10,244 |
| 2026 | 120 | 10,231 |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Loving (TX) | 174 | 21.2% |
| Ellis (OK) | 132 | 16.1% |
| Reeves (TX) | 81 | 9.9% |
| Ochiltree (TX) | 80 | 9.7% |
| Roger Mills (OK) | 80 | 9.7% |
| Dewey (OK) | 59 | 7.2% |
| Custer (OK) | 45 | 5.5% |
| Winkler (TX) | 33 | 4% |
| Lipscomb (TX) | 29 | 3.5% |
| Crane (TX) | 22 | 2.7% |
| All other counties | 86 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anadarko Basin | 370 | 48.1% |
| Permian Basin | 232 | 30.1% |
| Avalon-Bone Spring | 81 | 10.5% |
| Cleveland | 79 | 10.3% |
| Granite Wash | 4 | 0.5% |
| Red Fork | 4 | 0.5% |
| Median permit → spud | 51 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 95 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 91.4% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 91.7% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 10,268 ft vs 7,724 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.
Mewbourne Oil Company has 821 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 154 of them in the last 12 complete months (+11.6% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Loving (21.2% of permits) and leading target is Anadarko Basin (48.1%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 51 days and from spud to first reported production 95 days. 91.4% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 10,268 ft, versus 7,724 ft on earlier permits (+32.9%).
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.