Quick answer: Rusk Energy Operating LLC has 28 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Houston (50% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (39.1%).
The most recent permit month is the current, partial month, which the 12-month count does not include yet.
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | — |
| 2020 | 8 | — |
| 2023 | 3 | — |
| 2024 | 3 | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Houston (TX) | 14 | 50% |
| Tyler (TX) | 5 | 17.9% |
| Leon (TX) | 4 | 14.3% |
| Colorado (TX) | 3 | 10.7% |
| All other counties | 2 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 9 | 39.1% |
| Austin Chalk | 7 | 30.4% |
| All other / unclassified | 7 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 23 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 68 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 80.8% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 85.7% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs — 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 2026-10-18.
Rusk Energy Operating LLC has 28 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Houston (50% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (39.1%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 23 days and from spud to first reported production 68 days. 80.8% 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.