The exploration in Oklahoma’s oil and gas plays remained steady in the past week, based on the most recent rig count released by Baker Hughes Co.
The company’s release showed the Cana Woodford count dropped by one one rig leaving 18 others active in the pursuit of oil and gas. Also known as the Anadarko-Woodford, the play is described as a liquids rich shale formation named after Canadian County. Horizontal well drilling replaced vertical starting in 2007 and in 2011, the U.S. Energy Administration declared it the “deepest commercial horizontal shale play in the world” because it is a deep formation ranging from 8,000 feet to 16,000 feet with some wells reaching total measured depth greater than 20,000 feet.
The Ardmore Woodford was unchanged at 6 rigs and the Arkoma Woodford continued with one…