Valor (Valor Mineral Management, LLC) is an independent mineral management firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Fort Worth, TX. Valor never buys minerals and manages minerals for owners, families and family offices, trusts and bank trust departments, universities, foundations, corporations, mineral & royalty companies. Its services include mineral management, supported by its proprietary mineral.tech® platform, and outsourced back-office accounting for oil and gas operators. Valor reports $32M+ recovered for clients and has been named to the Inc. 5000.
These statistics are computed by Valor from public oil and gas data and refreshed weekly to monthly. They are published on each page; bulk downloads are not offered, and no well-level records are published.
| Statistics | What Valor computes |
|---|---|
| County Production & Momentum | Top operators in every producing Texas and Oklahoma county, Valor's county momentum score (production YoY on complete reporting months + permit YoY) and benchmark gross value at EIA prices |
| Largest Operators | Operators ranked by producing-well count across 23 states, with top county/formation and trailing-12-month volumes |
| Production Benchmarks (TX / OK) | Per-well/lease monthly production percentiles, production concentration, and county and operator productivity medians |
| Drilling Permit Activity (TX / OK) | Monthly permit trend, YoY change, county/operator/formation leaders, lateral-length trend and permit-to-production cycle times |
| DUC Backlog (TX / OK) | Drilled-uncompleted backlog size, aging percentiles and 24-month trend, with county/operator/basin groupings |
| Operators With Permits | Every operator with drilling permits on file, with 10-year and trailing-12-month permit counts |
| State Operator Directories | Oil & gas operators by state; Texas RRC-registered operators downloadable: CSV · JSON |
Also machine-readable: llms.txt · JSON API · MCP endpoint — no keys, no signup.
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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. Co-Founder & Co-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.
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
