Quick answer: Vx Operating, LLC has 23 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (0.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Schleicher (43.5% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (59.1%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | — |
| 2018 | 3 | 128 |
| 2019 | 3 | — |
| 2021 | 3 | — |
| 2024 | 3 | 250 |
| 2025 | 3 | 128 |
| Other years combined (3 years) | 3 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Schleicher (TX) | 10 | 43.5% |
| Taylor (TX) | 5 | 21.7% |
| Fisher (TX) | 3 | 13% |
| All other counties | 5 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 13 | 59.1% |
| Ozona Canyon | 9 | 40.9% |
| Median permit → spud | 11 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 52 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 65% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 69.2% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 128 ft vs 128 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 2026-09-29.
Vx Operating, LLC has 23 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 3 of them in the last 12 complete months (0.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Schleicher (43.5% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (59.1%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 11 days and from spud to first reported production 52 days. 65% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 128 ft, versus 128 ft on earlier permits (0.0%).
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.