Quick answer: Paloma Operating, LLC has 80 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 20 of them in the last 12 complete months (+25.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Wharton (18.8% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (80.3%).
The most recent permit month is the current, partial month, which the 12-month count does not include yet.
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 126 |
| 2019 | 6 | 1,089 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2,863 |
| 2022 | 12 | 129 |
| 2023 | 6 | 128 |
| 2024 | 11 | 126 |
| 2025 | 17 | 120 |
| 2026 | 14 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wharton (TX) | 15 | 18.8% |
| Nueces (TX) | 9 | 11.3% |
| Refugio (TX) | 9 | 11.3% |
| Jim Wells (TX) | 8 | 10% |
| Bee (TX) | 6 | 7.5% |
| Canadian (OK) | 4 | 5% |
| Jackson (TX) | 4 | 5% |
| Live Oak (TX) | 4 | 5% |
| Blaine (OK) | 3 | 3.8% |
| Grady (OK) | 3 | 3.8% |
| All other counties | 15 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 61 | 80.3% |
| Anadarko Basin | 6 | 7.9% |
| Woodford | 5 | 6.6% |
| All other / unclassified | 4 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 34 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 102 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 83.3% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 75.5% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 126 ft vs 131 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.
Paloma Operating, LLC has 80 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 20 of them in the last 12 complete months (+25.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Wharton (18.8% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (80.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 34 days and from spud to first reported production 102 days. 83.3% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 126 ft, versus 131 ft on earlier permits (-3.8%).
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.