Quick answer: Shell Oil Company has 145 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 Loving (82.8% of permits) and leading target is Avalon-Bone Spring (94.3%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | 4,821 |
| 2018 | 29 | 2,015 |
| 2019 | 64 | 5,729 |
| 2020 | 30 | 4,023 |
| 2021 | 16 | — |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Loving (TX) | 120 | 82.8% |
| Ward (TX) | 19 | 13.1% |
| Winkler (TX) | 5 | 3.4% |
| All other counties | 1 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Avalon-Bone Spring | 50 | 94.3% |
| Permian Basin | 3 | 5.7% |
| Median permit → spud | 435 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 29.7% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 0% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 5,588 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.
Shell Oil Company has 145 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 Loving (82.8% of permits) and leading target is Avalon-Bone Spring (94.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 435 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 29.7% 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.