Quick answer: Williams Oil Company has 23 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (-75.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Ward (82.6% of permits) and leading target is Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert (91.3%).
| Year | Permits | Median lateral (ft) |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | — |
| 2018 | 7 | 1,204 |
| 2025 | 4 | 146 |
| Other years combined (4 years) | 5 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert | 21 | 91.3% |
| All other / unclassified | 2 | — |
| Median permit → spud | 42 days |
| Median spud → first reported production | 25 days |
| Permits older than 12 months that were spudded | 95.5% |
| Spuds older than 12 months reporting production | 95.5% |
| Median lateral, last 24 months vs earlier | 146 ft vs 1,167 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.
Williams Oil Company has 23 Texas/Oklahoma drilling permits in the last ten years, 1 of them in the last 12 complete months (-75.0% year over year). Its most-permitted county is Ward (82.6% of permits) and leading target is Thirty-One Carbonate-Chert (91.3%).
Across its permits, the median time from permit to spud is 42 days and from spud to first reported production 25 days. 95.5% of its permits older than a year have been spudded.
Its median lateral on permits from the last 24 months is 146 ft, versus 1,167 ft on earlier permits (-87.5%).
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.