Quick answer: Seaboard Operating Co. has 48 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 Ward (66.7% of permits) and leading target is Avalon-Bone Spring (50%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | — |
| 2018 | 11 | 150 |
| 2019 | 4 | — |
| 2020 | 10 | 149 |
| 2021 | 7 | 141 |
| 2022 | 5 | — |
| 2024 | 3 | — |
| Other years combined (3 years) | 4 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avalon-Bone Spring | 20 | 50% |
| Permian Basin | 20 | 50% |
| Median permit → spud | 52 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 57 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 76.6% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 91.7% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 150 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.
Seaboard Operating Co. has 48 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 Ward (66.7% of permits) and leading target is Avalon-Bone Spring (50%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 52 days and from spud to first reported production 57 days. 76.6% 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.