Press Kit & Data for Journalists

Citable Data, Company Facts, and a Direct Line — for Reporters and Analysts Covering U.S. Oil & Gas and Mineral Rights

Quick answer: Everything on this page is free to use. The datasets are open data (CC BY 4.0, archived with a citable DOI); the company facts are current and verifiable; the citations are pre-formatted; and the media contact reaches a human. Credit "Valor (onevalor.com)" and you're done.

About Valor — boilerplate you can lift

Valor (Valor Mineral Management, LLC) is a Fort Worth, Texas–based oil & gas professional-services firm founded in 2018. It provides mineral and royalty management for owners — individuals, families, trusts, banks, universities, foundations, and government entities — and outsourced back-office accounting for operators, powered by its proprietary mineral.tech® platform. Valor is SOC certified, has recovered more than $27 million in unclaimed revenues for mineral owners, and has been named to the Inc. 5000.

Open datasets — free to cite, DOI-archived

All datasets are CC BY 4.0 (credit Valor / onevalor.com), compiled from state-regulator filings, refreshed monthly, and archived on Zenodo at doi:10.5281/zenodo.21442615. Every page below offers CSV and JSON downloads.

Dataset	What's in it	Downloads
County Production Rankings	Top operators in every producing Texas and Oklahoma county — oil (BBL), gas (MCF), well counts, monthly	TX CSV · JSON · OK CSV · JSON
Largest Operators (National)	Top 100 U.S. operators by producing-well count across 23 states, with top county/formation and trailing-12-month volumes	CSV · JSON
State Operator Directories	Every registered oil & gas operator in each of 22 states, from regulator registrations	Per state: TX CSV · JSON (same pattern for all states)
DUC Inventory	Drilled-but-uncompleted wells in Texas and Oklahoma — operator, county, spud date, days waiting	TX CSV · JSON · OK CSV · JSON
Recent Drilling Permits	The 100 newest permits per state — operator, county, formation, filing date	TX CSV · JSON · OK CSV · JSON
Top Producing Wells	The 500 highest-producing wells statewide by oil and by gas	TX CSV · JSON · OK CSV · JSON
Operators With Active Permits	Every operator holding active drilling permits, with counts and latest filing	CSV · JSON

Also machine-readable: llms.txt · JSON API · MCP endpoint — no keys, no signup.

How to cite Valor data

In articles (short form):

Source: Valor (onevalor.com), from state-regulator filings

APA:

Valor (Valor Mineral Management, LLC). (2026). Valor Oil & Gas Public Datasets [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21442615

BibTeX:

@dataset{valor_oil_gas_datasets,
  author    = {{Valor (Valor Mineral Management, LLC)}},
  title     = {Valor Oil \& Gas Public Datasets},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.21442615},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21442615}
}

Brand assets

Logos may be used in editorial coverage of Valor. Do not alter colors or proportions.

Valor logo — blue shield, gray wordmark (png) (primary; for light backgrounds)
Valor logo — blue shield, white wordmark (png) (for dark backgrounds; used in the site navbar)
Valor logo — all white (webp) (for dark backgrounds)
mineral.tech® logo (png)

Need another format or an executive headshot? Email the media contact below.

Expert commentary

Valor's leadership is available for interviews and background on: mineral rights and royalty ownership, inherited minerals, royalty auditing and underpayment, oil & gas back-office operations, county-level production and drilling trends, and the operator landscape across the producing states. President & CEO Joseph DeWoody, CPL, has been recognized by Oil and Gas Investor's "Top 20 Under 40" and as D CEO's Energy Services and Technology Executive of the Year.

Media contact

Email: [email protected] (subject line "Media inquiry" reaches a person, fast)
Phone: (817) 370-0612
Address: 6300 Ridglea Place, Suite 950, Fort Worth, TX 76116