We are tracking 153 Oil & Gas Operators and 363 drilling rigs that drilled wells in Texas, Oklahoma, Mew Mexico and Louisiana last 30 days.
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- Top Oil & Gas Operators by Drilling Rig Include; EOG Resources (22), Pioneer Resources (22), Devon Energy (15), Conocophillips (13) and Diamondback Energy (12)
- Top State by Drilling Rig; Texas (240), New Mexico (70), Louisiana (33) and Oklahoma (20)
- Top County by Drilling Rig; Lea (38), Eddy (31), Midland (26), Martin (22) and Reeves (20)
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Mid-continent oil field is a broad area containing hundreds of oil fields in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The most active basins for drilling activity include;
- Permian Basin is a shale basin about 250 miles wide and 300 miles long, spanning parts of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. It includes the highly-prolific Delaware and Midland sub-basins.
- Eagle Ford in Texas is the most mature tight oil play in the Lower 48 current, oil and natural gas production of 2.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. Measuring 400 miles long and 50 miles wide along the Texas Gulf Coast, the Eagle Ford basin is spread over 12,000 square miles in South and central Texas.
- STACK play is located in the Anadarko Basin area of Oklahoma. STACK is derived from “Sooner Trend (oil field), Anadarko (basin), Canadian and Kingfisher (counties).” The majority of the play is located across (Canadian and Kingfisher as the core counties) and Blaine, Major, Garfield counties. Unlike Plays such as the Eagle Ford, Bakken, Granite Wash, the STACK is not a geological formation, but a geographic referenced area.
A drilling rig is an integrated system that drills wells, such as oil or water wells, in the earth’s subsurface. … The term “rig” therefore generally refers to the complex equipment that is used to penetrate the surface of the Earth’s crust. Spudding is the process of beginning to drill a well in the oil and gas industry. … After the surface hole is completed, the main drill bit—which performs the task of drilling to the total depth—is inserted and this process can also be referred to as “spudding in.”
