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Timelapse of wells drilled in Oklahoma since 2010. Gold are horizontal and blue are vertical.
Ovintiv wants 130-140 Permian wells online this year on ~5 rigs. Q3 basin avg 235 MBOE/d, company FCF $680M. Busy calendar. prnewswire.com/news-releases…
April 15, 1897, Bartlesville, Indian Territory: a crowd watches Keeler's stepdaughter Jennie Cass drop a go-devil down the hole. Nitroglycerin fires in the Bartlesville sand at 1,320 feet. Oil climbs the derrick. Oklahoma's first commercial oil well is born. okhistory.org/publications/e…
Problem: no tanks, no pipe, no railroad. They capped it. When the Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern (later Santa Fe) reached Bartlesville in 1899, the oil finally had a way out. Lifetime production topped 100,000 barrels before it was plugged in 1948.
The strike pulled drillers onto nearby Osage lands and pulled Frank and L.E. Phillips from Iowa to Bartlesville in 1904. Nellie later sold the tract to the city; today a replica derrick stands in Johnstone Park / Discovery 1 Park. aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers…
Cushing put on 280k bbl last week to 27.25M while the rest of the U.S. kept drawing. Hub doing its own thing again. okenergytoday.com/2026/11/cu…
OK approved 79 new-drill permits in October, 60 horizontal with ~130 mi of planned lateral (OCC). Grady led with 36.7 mi, then Roger Mills 27.7, Custer 22.6 and Stephens 19.0, ~81% of it. Most permits: Continental 8, Mewbourne 8, Camino 7, FW Midcon 7. oklahoma.gov/occ/divisions/o…
Osage County is blank because the OCC doesn’t regulate there. Drilling is controlled by the BIA. Plenty of new wells were drilled there during this time frame. There is just a gap in the data for my timelapse.
In 1917, John C. Karcher, working at the U.S. Bureau of Standards, built an instrument to locate enemy artillery from the vibrations of its firing. After the war he pointed it at geology instead. That idea changed how the world finds oil. 🧵okhistory.org/publications/e…
Then oil prices crashed and nobody bought it. In 1925 Karcher teamed with Everette DeGolyer at Amerada. A crew mapped around Seminole, and on Dec 4, 1928, Amerada struck oil: the first well ever drilled on a structure found by reflection seismic.
Matador's gas went from -$0.79/Mcf in Q2 (yes, negative) to $2.99 in Q3 once the Hugh Brinson pipeline opened Sept 1. Add 230,470 boe/d, capex 10% under guidance and a 17% dividend raise. Turns out gas is worth more when it can leave Waha. matadorresources.com/news-re…
Crescent Energy Q3: 328,000 boe/d incl. 134,000 bbl/d oil, $367M levered free cash flow and $326M capex. It drilled 22 Eagle Ford wells and brought 25 online, ahead of its ~$3.85B net Devon Eagle Ford buy, expected to close Q4 or early 2027. sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
Summit Petroleum's Upton wells: median first test of 1,590 bopd across 28 wells completed in 2026, vs 1,029 for everyone else's horizontals there. Texas output up 54% in a year to ~43,200 boe/d. Found the good rock, kept drilling (ShaleExperts). shaleexperts.com/articles/Su…
Tulsa's Williams Q3: $2.039B adjusted EBITDA (+6%) and West gathering at 7.18 Bcf/d vs 6.14 a year ago, with Momentum's Haynesville system now on board. The CEO calls the Haynesville America's fastest-growing gas basin. Louisiana gas, Oklahoma paycheck. investor.williams.com/news-r…
Chevron sold 70% of its East Texas gas to TG Natural Resources for $525M, $450M of it a drilling carry. TGNR Panola's June output: 203,801 Mcf/d, more than 9x a year earlier, after 19 new Haynesville tests (ShaleExperts). That carry is carrying. shaleexperts.com/articles/TG…
How a freight bill started Tulsa's oil story: in 1901 Pennsylvania oilmen John Wick and Jesse Heydrick couldn't get their rig released at the Red Fork depot. Two local doctors, J.C.W. Bland and Fred Clinton, fronted the money. They spudded May 10. 🧵
When it hit, Dr. Bland was down with appendicitis. Clinton got power of attorney from his wife Sue, a Muscogee Creek citizen, and caught the train to Muskogee, still in oil-stained clothes, to file her allotment on June 26. The well was named the Sue Bland No. 1 after her. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/6…
Red Fork never made much oil, but the rush pulled oilmen into Indian Territory. Robert Galbreath moved to Red Fork and later drilled the Ida Glenn No. 1 in 1905, opening Glenn Pool. By 1904 Tulsa had bridged the Arkansas River to reach the field. hmdb.org/m.asp?m=142078
