[Eric in the Ozarks]

Kansas has been worked over pretty hard in past decades.

[Zathras]

They all moved to Colorado.
Lots of new rigs popping up every week east of Fort Collins.

[IMR 4350]

That boys and girls is why you never give an oil company a long term lease.

2 years max so they don’t tie your land up and other companies can’t drill.

For the larger land owners, always put a performance clause in the lease so one well can’t hold all your property.

Make them keep drilling or loose the lease on the property that’s not part of a unit.

[COBOL2Java]

The differences in the geology of the two states dates back more than 250 million years, when shallow seas covered Kansas as rocks in the Mississippian lime play were deposited. But in the area that now encompasses Oklahoma the seas during that period were far deeper, forming the widespread and homogenous formation there that today holds vast oil reserves. By contrast, the lime formation now underneath much of Kansas is thinner and tends to undulate, experts say. That makes it more difficult to find the “sweet spot” of oil when the horizontal lateral off the well is drilled.

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Too bad that Kansas got the short end of the Cretaceous stick, oil wise. There's oil to be found there, but it's much harder to locate than in Oklahoma.

Geography of North America during the Cretaceous Period, about 100 million years ago. Present-day Kansas is outlined in red (from Wicander and Monroe, 1989).

[wita]

I would guess big oil feels like they have enough of the good stuff on their plates at the moment that chasing rainbows can wait.

[MrB]

Sounds like some prime food growin’ land just got freed up for cheap.