Quick answer: Trinity Operating (Usg), LLC has 729 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Hughes (16.6% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (27.4%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 90 | 7,889 |
| 2018 | 123 | 9,635 |
| 2019 | 106 | 10,366 |
| 2020 | 91 | 10,529 |
| 2021 | 71 | 10,454 |
| 2022 | 133 | 10,755 |
| 2023 | 71 | 10,251 |
| Other years combined (3 years) | 34 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hughes (OK) | 121 | 16.6% |
| Frio (TX) | 102 | 14% |
| Pittsburg (OK) | 89 | 12.2% |
| La Salle (TX) | 77 | 10.6% |
| Zavala (TX) | 75 | 10.3% |
| Dimmit (TX) | 70 | 9.6% |
| Webb (TX) | 70 | 9.6% |
| Wilson (TX) | 41 | 5.6% |
| Harrison (TX) | 23 | 3.2% |
| Atascosa (TX) | 19 | 2.6% |
| All other counties | 42 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 182 | 27.4% |
| Austin Chalk | 161 | 24.2% |
| Woodford-Caney | 135 | 20.3% |
| Arkoma Basin | 82 | 12.3% |
| Olmos | 55 | 8.3% |
| Chautauqua Platform | 23 | 3.5% |
| All other / unclassified | 26 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 18 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 128 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 88% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 92.5% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 10,222 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.
Trinity Operating (Usg), LLC has 729 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Hughes (16.6% of permits) and leading target is Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) (27.4%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 18 days and from spud to first reported production 128 days. 88% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
There are not enough permits with a recorded lateral length to compute a trend.
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.