Quick answer: Spess Oil Company Inc has 35 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Pawnee (48.6% of permits) and leading target is Chautauqua Platform (68.6%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | — |
| 2018 | 4 | — |
| 2019 | 7 | — |
| 2021 | 8 | — |
| 2022 | 4 | — |
| Other years combined (3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pawnee (OK) | 17 | 48.6% |
| Kingfisher (OK) | 6 | 17.1% |
| Garfield (OK) | 5 | 14.3% |
| Lincoln (OK) | 3 | 8.6% |
| All other counties | 4 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chautauqua Platform | 24 | 68.6% |
| Anadarko Basin | 11 | 31.4% |
| Median permit → spud | 29 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 1,773 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 71.9% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 38.5% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 241 ft vs 678 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 2026-10-18.
Spess Oil Company Inc has 35 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Pawnee (48.6% of permits) and leading target is Chautauqua Platform (68.6%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 29 days and from spud to first reported production 1,773 days. 71.9% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 241 ft, versus 678 ft on earlier permits (-64.5%).
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.