Texas-Panhandle

An unconventional gas resource play in Pennsylvanian Atoka shale is emerging in the Anadarko basin in the Texas Panhandle and far western Oklahoma.

Jan. 7, 2009

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 7 -- An unconventional gas resource play in Pennsylvanian Atoka shale is emerging in the Anadarko basin in the Texas Panhandle and far western Oklahoma.

Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., said it had 34,000 net acres in the play in mid-December 2008. The play stretches about 85 miles from Peek field in Ellis County, Okla., west to Lipscomb, Ochiltree, eastern Hansford, northeastern Roberts, and northernmost Hemphill counties in the Texas Panhandle.

Continental said EOG Resources Inc., Houston, has completed 26 horizontal wells at as much as 7 MMcfd/well and attributed 400 bcf of Atoka recovery potential to its 60,000 net acres.