Quick answer: Vess Oil Corporation has 40 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 0 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Brazos (60% of permits) and leading target is Austin Chalk (47.2%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | 6,296 |
| 2019 | 8 | 8,254 |
| 2020 | 5 | — |
| 2022 | 6 | 5,856 |
| 2023 | 8 | 8,008 |
| 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.
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Austin Chalk | 17 | 47.2% |
| Gulf Coast Basin (La - Tx) | 11 | 30.6% |
| Gilmer Lime | 5 | 13.9% |
| All other / unclassified | 3 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 80 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 138 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 77.5% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 80.6% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | — ft vs 6,977 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.
Vess Oil Corporation has 40 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 0 of them in the last 12 complete months (— year over year). Its most-permitted county is Brazos (60% of permits) and leading target is Austin Chalk (47.2%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 80 days and from spud to first reported production 138 days. 77.5% 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.