TREND. Long Lateral Drilling. Rules Promulgated in the Great North.

The Great North: Oklahoma

The agency implementing emergency long lateral drilling rules: Oklahoma Corporation Commission

What triggered emergency rules? Senate Bill 867, the Extended Horizontal Well Development Act

What the emergency rules will do:

• Allow for long lateral drilling up to 1 mile
• 1 mile lateral drilling is limited to non-shale formations

What’s unclear on what the rules will address:

• how vertical producers can participate in horizontal drilling development in large spacing units where they already had an interest and the impact to existing pooling orders.

News OK | Oklahoma Corporation Commission studies emergency rules for long-lateral drilling law