Quick answer: Slant Operating, LLC has 38 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (-80.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Ector (34.2% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (82.6%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | — |
| 2019 | 6 | — |
| 2021 | 3 | — |
| 2022 | 6 | — |
| 2023 | 6 | 13,083 |
| 2024 | 4 | 10,017 |
| 2025 | 5 | 7,857 |
| 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.
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ector (TX) | 13 | 34.2% |
| Crane (TX) | 12 | 31.6% |
| Wilbarger (TX) | 12 | 31.6% |
| All other counties | 1 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 19 | 82.6% |
| Palo Duro Basin | 3 | 13% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 12 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 140 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 35.1% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 92.9% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 7,857 ft vs 7,158 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.
Slant Operating, LLC has 38 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (-80.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Ector (34.2% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (82.6%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 12 days and from spud to first reported production 140 days. 35.1% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 7,857 ft, versus 7,158 ft on earlier permits (+9.8%).
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.