Quick answer: Paleo Oil Company LLC has 113 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 4 of them in the last 12 complete months (+33.3% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Brooks (17.7% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (36.2%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 14 | 428 |
| 2018 | 7 | 1,192 |
| 2019 | 19 | 525 |
| 2020 | 11 | 101 |
| 2021 | 17 | 4,352 |
| 2022 | 24 | 380 |
| 2023 | 8 | 344 |
| 2024 | 5 | 136 |
| 2025 | 4 | — |
| 2026 | 3 | — |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Brooks (TX) | 20 | 17.7% |
| Walker (TX) | 16 | 14.2% |
| Bee (TX) | 10 | 8.8% |
| Lee (TX) | 10 | 8.8% |
| Fayette (TX) | 8 | 7.1% |
| Grimes (TX) | 8 | 7.1% |
| Polk (TX) | 8 | 7.1% |
| Live Oak (TX) | 6 | 5.3% |
| San Patricio (TX) | 5 | 4.4% |
| Washington (TX) | 5 | 4.4% |
| All other counties | 17 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 38 | 36.2% |
| Austin Chalk | 37 | 35.2% |
| Vicksburg | 19 | 18.1% |
| Eagle Ford | 8 | 7.6% |
| All other / unclassified | 3 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 10 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 65 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 86.4% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 94.8% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 678 ft vs 468 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.
Paleo Oil Company LLC has 113 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 4 of them in the last 12 complete months (+33.3% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Brooks (17.7% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (36.2%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 10 days and from spud to first reported production 65 days. 86.4% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 678 ft, versus 468 ft on earlier permits (+44.9%).
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.