Quick answer: Sponte Operating, Inc. has 44 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 6 of them in the last 12 complete months (+100.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Panola (52.3% of permits) and leading target is East Texas Basin (84.8%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | 10,185 |
| 2022 | 17 | 9,244 |
| 2023 | 4 | 10,461 |
| 2024 | 3 | 9,989 |
| 2025 | 3 | — |
| 2026 | 6 | 9,193 |
| Other years combined (2 years) | 3 | — |
Years with fewer than three permits are combined with at least one other year, so no single year's count is published.
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| East Texas Basin | 28 | 84.8% |
| Travis Peak | 5 | 15.2% |
| Median permit → spud | 58 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 215 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 71.1% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 85.7% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 9,193 ft vs 10,199 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.
Sponte Operating, Inc. has 44 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 6 of them in the last 12 complete months (+100.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Panola (52.3% of permits) and leading target is East Texas Basin (84.8%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 58 days and from spud to first reported production 215 days. 71.1% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 9,193 ft, versus 10,199 ft on earlier permits (-9.9%).
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.