Quick answer: Unit Petroleum Company has 100 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 Hemphill (28% of permits) and leading target is Anadarko Basin (62.5%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 17 | 5,934 |
| 2018 | 25 | 7,042 |
| 2019 | 31 | 4,950 |
| 2020 | 5 | — |
| 2021 | 13 | 4,646 |
| 2022 | 4 | 116 |
| Other years combined (3 years) | 4 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hemphill (TX) | 28 | 28% |
| Grady (OK) | 26 | 26% |
| Custer (OK) | 10 | 10% |
| Caddo (OK) | 7 | 7% |
| Blaine (OK) | 6 | 6% |
| Dewey (OK) | 6 | 6% |
| Latimer (OK) | 4 | 4% |
| Polk (TX) | 3 | 3% |
| Tyler (TX) | 3 | 3% |
| All other counties | 7 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anadarko Basin | 55 | 62.5% |
| Granite Wash | 21 | 23.9% |
| Woodford | 6 | 6.8% |
| Arkoma Basin | 4 | 4.5% |
| All other / unclassified | 2 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 30 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 65 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 75.8% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 60.5% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 215 ft vs 4,950 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.
Unit Petroleum Company has 100 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 Hemphill (28% of permits) and leading target is Anadarko Basin (62.5%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 30 days and from spud to first reported production 65 days. 75.8% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 215 ft, versus 4,950 ft on earlier permits (-95.7%).
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.