Quick answer: Sunlight Exploration, Inc. has 14 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 Oldham (50% of permits) and leading target is Palo Duro Basin (69.2%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 132 |
| 2019 | 3 | — |
| 2026 | 3 | — |
| Other years combined (4 years) | 4 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Palo Duro Basin | 9 | 69.2% |
| Anadarko Basin | 4 | 30.8% |
| Median permit → spud | 15 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 102 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 90.9% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 63.6% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 134 ft vs 500 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.
Sunlight Exploration, Inc. has 14 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 Oldham (50% of permits) and leading target is Palo Duro Basin (69.2%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 15 days and from spud to first reported production 102 days. 90.9% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 134 ft, versus 500 ft on earlier permits (-73.2%).
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.