Quick answer: Royal Production Company, Inc. has 34 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 6 of them in the last 12 complete months (+100.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Live Oak (47.1% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (44.8%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | 973 |
| 2021 | 5 | — |
| 2022 | 7 | 238 |
| 2024 | 3 | — |
| 2026 | 6 | 252 |
| Other years combined (5 years) | 8 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Live Oak (TX) | 16 | 47.1% |
| Hidalgo (TX) | 5 | 14.7% |
| Starr (TX) | 4 | 11.8% |
| Bee (TX) | 3 | 8.8% |
| All other counties | 6 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 13 | 44.8% |
| Eagle Ford | 11 | 37.9% |
| Vicksburg | 5 | 17.2% |
| Median permit → spud | 41 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 51 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 75% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 91.7% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 370 ft vs 239 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.
Royal Production Company, Inc. has 34 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 6 of them in the last 12 complete months (+100.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Live Oak (47.1% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (44.8%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 41 days and from spud to first reported production 51 days. 75% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 370 ft, versus 239 ft on earlier permits (+54.8%).
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.