How long a Texas drilling permit takes

An application to drill, not a permit. The Railroad Commission had not issued a permit for these when the snapshot was taken, and it may never. The Commission lists applications awaiting approval twice a day. This site has kept 3,356 of those listings since 2020-08-31, which is what makes the queue measurable from the outside.

119,756 permits are left out of every figure above. Permits whose issue date falls before their received date are left out. An amendment moves the received date forward and leaves the original issue date behind, so the subtraction is not a turnaround.

This is not a list of applications still under review. An application that was withdrawn, denied or left to expire also has no issued permit, and the Commission does not publish which happened. The date is when the application first appeared in a listing we kept, not when it was filed.