For Marathon Oil, the primary focus in Oklahoma has been delineation and leasehold protection in the Meramec play in the STACK and delineation of the Woodford and Springer plays in the SCOOP, as it moves toward infill development.
The company holds 300,000 net surface acreage with rights to the Woodford, Springer, Meramec, Osage, Oswego, Granite Wash and other Pennsylvanian and Mississippian plays, with a majority of this in the SCOOP and STACK. For further reading check out our story: Marathon has also amassed a large position in the Austin Chalk.
Marathon Oil’s Oklahoma production averaged 80,000 net boed during second quarter 2018, up 7 percent from 75,000 net boed in the prior quarter. In the SCOOP, the Company brought on the four-well Woodford Lightner infill pad on 660-foot spacing across a half section, with an average 30-day IP rate of 2,620 boed (48% oil, 6,840-foot average lateral length). The pad’s IP rate and oil cut both exceeded expectations. In the STACK, four Meramec wells in the Siegrist infill pad achieved an average 30-day IP rate of 900 boed (71% oil, 4,505-foot average lateral length), meeting expectations with strong oil rates. Marathon Oil also signed a firm transportation agreement for 100 million cubic feet per day beginning in fourth quarter 2018 to protect near-term natural gas production and bridge to the start-up of the Midship Pipeline on which Marathon Oil is an anchor shipper.
OK Energy Today is reporting that Marathon Oil Company also recently reported the completion of two wells, each producing more than a thousand barrels of oil daily, nearly 8 months after they were completed in Kingfisher County.
Drilled at the same site about 12 miles southwest of the city of Kingfisher the largest is the Tan 1509-5-4-33mxh which had production of 1,673 barrels of oil a day. It had an April 2017 spud date and drilling was finished in July 2017. The well was completed in December of that year but the completion report wasn’t filed until recently.
The second Tan well, Tan 1509 9-4mh produced 1,235 barrels of oil a day when it was completed in December 2017. Its spud date was in May of last year and drilling finished in June.
