CLR, Anadarko-Springer, And Zeits -- September 18, 2014; Platts Update

Background

Springer shale: presentation. A pdf may download automatically.

Updates

August 15, 2017: EIA adds the Anadarko in its weekly production report. 

February 19, 2016: still attracting new investors.

October 6, 2014: Wood Mackenzie on the Springer. 

September 21, 2014: more on the Springer and CLR at OilandGas360.

September 21, 2014: the AP reports on CLR and the Springer. 

September 18, 2014: Platts reports:

Continental Resources unveiled results of the Springer Shale on Thursday, a new Oklahoma oil play that could help boost the state's already growing production to levels not seen in decades.

The Springer, chiefly sited in Grady and parts of Garvin counties at 12,500-foot depths, is yielding top-notch initial output rates and economic returns, company managers said Thursday in webcast remarks during Continental's 2014 Analyst Day in Oklahoma City.

The company's results in the Springer, combined with its own and the industry's mounting production at the South Central Oklahoma Oil Play and output from other formations in the state's subsoil, is adding to Oklahoma's already mounting production of 345,000 b/d in June, according to US Energy Information Administration data.

"Oklahoma could potentially become the nation's [third-highest] oil-producing state," Continental CEO Harold Hamm said in opening the 2014 event, its first such investor gathering in two years. 

Original Post

Zeits, Seeking Alpha:

 Springer Shale in the Anadarko

• Continental substantially increased resource estimates for its Anadarko Basin asset.
• The announcement of the Springer Shale discovery is important, given that the play will add to the “core of the core” drilling inventory.
• The positive read-across is to Newfield, Cimarex, Marathon and Devon.

One of the most important takeaways from Continental Resources' Analyst Day presentation - which will begin in a few hours in Oklahoma City -- is that the company's opportunity set associated with the Anadarko Basin plays may prove to be comparable to CLR's position in the Bakken. As shown on the following graph, the company estimates that its SCOOP's unrisked resource potential is approximately equal to the resource potential in its Bakken asset.

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Zeits continues:

Continental has significantly increased its leasehold in the deep Anadarko Basin since the company announced the play in 2012. Continental disclosed that as of September 18, 2014, it has 471,000 net acres under lease in the basin. Adding together the 451,000 net acres that are prospective for the Woodford Shale and 195,000 net acres that are prospective for the Springer, the combined "single-play" resource leasehold is ~646,000 net acres, which compares to ~893,000 net acres that the company controls in the Bakken play in North Dakota and ~305,000 net acres in Montana.

Most importantly, the identified sweet spots in Continental's Anadarko Basin resource plays compare favorably in terms of drilling returns to the most productive areas in the Bakken. The following slide shows that Continental sees exceptionally strong returns in the SCOOP Condensate window and in the just announced Springer Shale play.