Quick answer: Sojourner Drilling Corporation has 193 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 6 of them in the last 12 complete months (-45.5% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Fisher (31.1% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (91.3%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 23 | 122 |
| 2018 | 40 | 135 |
| 2019 | 24 | 119 |
| 2020 | 9 | 120 |
| 2021 | 12 | 119 |
| 2022 | 28 | 123 |
| 2023 | 23 | 121 |
| 2024 | 18 | 288 |
| 2025 | 11 | 302 |
| 2026 | 5 | 121 |
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fisher (TX) | 60 | 31.1% |
| Jones (TX) | 50 | 25.9% |
| King (TX) | 16 | 8.3% |
| Stonewall (TX) | 13 | 6.7% |
| Taylor (TX) | 13 | 6.7% |
| Kent (TX) | 10 | 5.2% |
| Coleman (TX) | 7 | 3.6% |
| Haskell (TX) | 7 | 3.6% |
| Callahan (TX) | 5 | 2.6% |
| Garza (TX) | 5 | 2.6% |
| All other counties | 7 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 167 | 91.3% |
| Barnett | 11 | 6% |
| Bend Arch | 5 | 2.7% |
| Median permit → spud | 30 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 83 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 77% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 86.2% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 278 ft vs 122 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.
Sojourner Drilling Corporation has 193 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 6 of them in the last 12 complete months (-45.5% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Fisher (31.1% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (91.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 30 days and from spud to first reported production 83 days. 77% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 278 ft, versus 122 ft on earlier permits (+127.9%).
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.