Quick answer: Tep Barnett Usa, LLC has 247 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 19 of them in the last 12 complete months (-38.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Tarrant (94.3% of permits) and leading target is Strawn Basin (54.5%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 14 | 5,801 |
| 2018 | 25 | 7,658 |
| 2019 | 3 | — |
| 2020 | 34 | 4,651 |
| 2021 | 26 | 5,350 |
| 2022 | 43 | 7,485 |
| 2023 | 38 | 5,983 |
| 2024 | 21 | 7,043 |
| 2025 | 36 | 5,023 |
| 2026 | 7 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Strawn Basin | 126 | 54.5% |
| Barnett | 91 | 39.4% |
| Ouachita Folded Belt | 14 | 6.1% |
| Median permit → spud | 197 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 199 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 77.6% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 85.2% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 5,189 ft vs 6,429 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.
Tep Barnett Usa, LLC has 247 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 19 of them in the last 12 complete months (-38.7% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Tarrant (94.3% of permits) and leading target is Strawn Basin (54.5%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 197 days and from spud to first reported production 199 days. 77.6% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 5,189 ft, versus 6,429 ft on earlier permits (-19.3%).
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.