Quick answer: Qep Energy Company has 159 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 Martin (66% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (98.3%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 15 | 7,713 |
| 2018 | 27 | 8,891 |
| 2019 | 25 | 255 |
| 2020 | 63 | — |
| 2021 | 29 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 59 | 98.3% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 108 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 10.7% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 5.9% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 7,708 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.
Qep Energy Company has 159 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 Martin (66% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (98.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 108 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 10.7% 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.