Quick answer: Pilot Water Gath Delaware LLC has 71 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 4 of them in the last 12 complete months (-76.5% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Winkler (45.1% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (60.6%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | 4,049 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,297 |
| 2022 | 7 | 1,102 |
| 2023 | 5 | 146 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,680 |
| 2025 | 16 | 151 |
| 2026 | 4 | — |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 3 | — |
Years with fewer than three permits are combined with at least one other year, so no single year's count is published.
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 43 | 60.6% |
| Avalon-Bone Spring | 28 | 39.4% |
| Median permit → spud | 38 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 80.6% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 3.8% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 151 ft vs 2,162 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.
Pilot Water Gath Delaware LLC has 71 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 4 of them in the last 12 complete months (-76.5% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Winkler (45.1% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (60.6%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 38 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 80.6% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 151 ft, versus 2,162 ft on earlier permits (-93.0%).
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.