Quick answer: Walsh & Watts, Inc. has 87 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 Fisher (44.8% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (89.7%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | — |
| 2019 | 8 | 5,783 |
| 2020 | 5 | 6,645 |
| 2021 | 22 | 5,608 |
| 2022 | 38 | 9,616 |
| 2023 | 5 | 7,836 |
| Other years combined (3 years) | 5 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fisher (TX) | 39 | 44.8% |
| Scurry (TX) | 16 | 18.4% |
| Crockett (TX) | 10 | 11.5% |
| Stonewall (TX) | 7 | 8% |
| Crane (TX) | 4 | 4.6% |
| Young (TX) | 3 | 3.4% |
| All other counties | 8 | — |
| Formation / play | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Permian Basin | 78 | 89.7% |
| Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert | 5 | 5.7% |
| Bend Arch | 3 | 3.4% |
| All other / unclassified | 1 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 38 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 116 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 97.7% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 83.1% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 129 ft vs 7,369 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.
Walsh & Watts, Inc. has 87 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 Fisher (44.8% of permits) and leading target is Permian Basin (89.7%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 38 days and from spud to first reported production 116 days. 97.7% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 129 ft, versus 7,369 ft on earlier permits (-98.2%).
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.