Aubrey McClendon
Analyst · SunTrust
Neal, our operations team never likes to talk about our production exploding, so I'll talk about it increasing rapidly perhaps. Clearly, we've had a commanding presence in the Anadarko for over a decade and the Anadarko is really one of the most prolific gas well basins of the countries ever enjoyed discovering. And we started with the Granite Wash in 2007 and then in 2008 and '09, basically, we and everybody in the industry started to look very closely at all the tight rock in the Anadarko Basin. And so formation such as the Cleveland and the Tonkawa began to be looked at and since that time the information is like the Hawk Shooter and the Web Fork [ph] get looked at. We're very, very pleased with our Cleveland and Tonkawa results. Last time I checked we controlled, I think close to 1,000 sections of leasehold that would be perspective for those formations we think and that continue to be active in acquiring leasehold. The Anadarko of course is different than the Eagle Ford and Niobrara and Williston in some other places where there wasn't a whole lot of production and you just went in and went on county after county, buying new lease holds in the Anadarko, it's really square mile by square mile down in the trenches and providing for operations, and mostly sections are HBP are many of them are on legacy assets that we own. So we're pleased with that. Mississippian, we're in the Western part of the play, all of our friends are in the Eastern part of the play and we're lighter out to the east. So not quite sure how that's going to work. But certainly, we look what we've seen in the West. We also do have a high-water cuts, we've got to deal with that. But Oklahoma is a pretty favorable location to be dealing with water, there's plenty of electricity handy. And also, disposal wells are easily drilled and permitted and drilled as well. So 1,000 barrels a day equivalent wells are certainly what we're shooting for and all three of those plays. Permian, really same thing, four plays that we're looking at are stronger, Bones Spring, the Avalon, the Wolfcamp and the Wolfberry really in two basins, I guess, the Delaware is Avalon and Bone Spring and then Wolfcamp, Wolfberry in the Permian Basin. And again the goal remains the same, 1,000 barrels a day in tight rock, not all of it of course are sold, most of these are just tight sand, so we're encouraged by what we're seeing and have huge acreage position in each of these plays and will be steadily ramping up in all eight of these plays. Individually, it don't get as much attention as some of the bigger shale plays. But collectively, are certainly very, very important basins for us as we move forward converting our production base from gas to more oil.