Quick answer: Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC has 195 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 91 of them in the last 12 complete months (+279.2% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Shelby (37.9% of permits) and leading target is East Texas Basin (56.6%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | 4,458 |
| 2021 | 14 | 9,108 |
| 2022 | 25 | 10,347 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9,866 |
| 2024 | 31 | 10,533 |
| 2025 | 21 | 9,941 |
| 2026 | 86 | 6,297 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 4 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shelby (TX) | 74 | 37.9% |
| Karnes (TX) | 28 | 14.4% |
| Harrison (TX) | 18 | 9.2% |
| Panola (TX) | 16 | 8.2% |
| Sabine (TX) | 12 | 6.2% |
| Live Oak (TX) | 11 | 5.6% |
| Mcmullen (TX) | 9 | 4.6% |
| Gonzales (TX) | 7 | 3.6% |
| San Augustine (TX) | 6 | 3.1% |
| De Witt (TX) | 4 | 2.1% |
| All other counties | 10 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| East Texas Basin | 94 | 56.6% |
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 52 | 31.3% |
| Austin Chalk | 12 | 7.2% |
| Travis Peak | 8 | 4.8% |
| Median permit → spud | 37 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 174 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 90.4% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 83.5% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 9,466 ft vs 9,871 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.
Silver Hill Energy Operating LLC has 195 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 91 of them in the last 12 complete months (+279.2% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Shelby (37.9% of permits) and leading target is East Texas Basin (56.6%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 37 days and from spud to first reported production 174 days. 90.4% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 9,466 ft, versus 9,871 ft on earlier permits (-4.1%).
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.