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Plains Pipeline L.P. Drilling Permit Activity

Quick answer: Plains Pipeline L.P. has 45 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 0 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Culberson (24.4% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (32.4%).

0
permits, last 12 complete months
—
vs prior 12 months
45
permits, last 10 years
February 2021
most recent permit month

Permits by year

2017: 6 permits 2017 2018: 5 permits 2018 2019: 17 permits 2019 2020: 12 permits 2020 2021: 5 permits 2021
Plains Pipeline L.P. drilling permits per year (years with 3+ permits) (permits)
Plains Pipeline L.P. drilling permits per year (years with 3+ permits)
Periodpermits
20176
20185
201917
202012
20215
YearPermitsMedian lateral (ft)
20176—
20185123
201917—
202012—
20215—

Where it permits

CountyPermitsShare
Culberson (TX)1124.4%
Baylor (TX)613.3%
Archer (TX)511.1%
Haskell (TX)511.1%
Fisher (TX)36.7%
All other counties15—

What it targets

Formation / playPermitsShare
Permian Basin1132.4%
Barnett926.5%
Avalon-Bone Spring411.8%
All other / unclassified10—

Permit-to-production timing

Median permit → spud255 days
Median spud → first reported production— days
Permits older than 12 months that were spudded11.1%
Spuds older than 12 months reporting production0%
Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier— ft vs 118 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.

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Plains Pipeline L.P. Permits — FAQ

Plains Pipeline L.P. has 45 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 0 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Culberson (24.4% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (32.4%).

Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 255 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 11.1% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.

There are not enough permits with a recorded lateral length to compute a trend.

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.