Quick answer: Solaris Water Midstream, LLC has 95 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 8 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Loving (37.9% of permits) and leading target is Avalon-Bone Spring (53.9%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | 136 |
| 2019 | 46 | 150 |
| 2021 | 6 | — |
| 2022 | 19 | 3,463 |
| 2023 | 4 | 1,860 |
| 2025 | 9 | 150 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 5 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Loving (TX) | 36 | 37.9% |
| Culberson (TX) | 21 | 22.1% |
| Reeves (TX) | 20 | 21.1% |
| Midland (TX) | 6 | 6.3% |
| Martin (TX) | 5 | 5.3% |
| Winkler (TX) | 4 | 4.2% |
| Howard (TX) | 3 | 3.2% |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Avalon-Bone Spring | 41 | 53.9% |
| Permian Basin | 29 | 38.2% |
| Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert | 5 | 6.6% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 115 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | — days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 57.5% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 0% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 150 ft vs 152 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 2026-09-29.
Solaris Water Midstream, LLC has 95 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 8 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Loving (37.9% of permits) and leading target is Avalon-Bone Spring (53.9%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 115 days and from spud to first reported production — days. 57.5% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 150 ft, versus 152 ft on earlier permits (-1.3%).
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.