SCOOP & STACK Mineral Rights

SCOOP and STACK acreage has been pooled and re-pooled under Oklahoma Corporation Commission orders more times than almost any other play we work in, and each order matters to your decimal.

The SCOOP, South Central Oklahoma Oil Province, and STACK, Sooner Trend Anadarko basin Canadian and Kingfisher counties, plays overlap the Anadarko Basin's stacked pay across Grady, McClain, Stephens, Garvin, Kingfisher and Canadian counties, and were developed intensively during the mid-2010s horizontal drilling cycle with continued activity since. Oklahoma's forced pooling process, administered through the Corporation Commission, has been used extensively here to assemble horizontal spacing units from tracts whose owners did not voluntarily lease, which means your ownership may be governed by a pooling order rather than, or in addition to, a traditional negotiated lease.

We buy royalty and ORRI interests throughout both plays, and every review starts with pulling the applicable OCC pooling order or orders, since Oklahoma pooling orders specify both the unit boundaries and the royalty rate and any bonus terms that apply to owners who did not elect to participate as working interest owners.

Forced pooling and what it means for your royalty rate

When a tract owner does not sign a voluntary lease before a spacing unit is finalized, Oklahoma's forced pooling process allows the operator to include that acreage anyway, with the Corporation Commission's order specifying default terms, typically a royalty election alongside working interest participation options, that the owner is deemed to have selected under certain circumstances. We read the specific pooling order governing your tract to confirm exactly which election applies and what royalty rate results, since forced-pooled terms can differ from what a voluntarily negotiated lease in the same unit would specify.

Stacked SCOOP and STACK benches under one tract

Both plays target multiple stacked intervals, including the Woodford, Springer, Meramec and various Mississippian benches depending on specific location, and a single tract can be included in more than one independently pooled unit at different depths. We confirm which specific formations and units your tract currently participates in, since owners are sometimes surprised to learn a second well targeting a different bench under the same acreage has been permitted or drilled without their initial awareness.

We also check whether your tract has been affected by any recent Corporation Commission order consolidating smaller original units into a single larger horizontal spacing unit, since this consolidation trend has continued in both plays as operators optimize lateral lengths across multiple original leases and pooling orders.

Re-pooling as units are amended over time

It is common in this play for an original pooling order to be amended years later as an operator adjusts unit boundaries or adds wells, and each amendment can carry its own effective date and terms. We ask for your most recent statement alongside the original documentation you have, so we can identify whether an amendment has occurred and pull the current controlling order before finalizing a price.

Small fractional interests from broad early leasing

The initial SCOOP and STACK leasing rush covered large blocks of Oklahoma acreage quickly, and many original mineral tracts were already divided among multiple heirs even before the horizontal boom began. We buy small pooled fractions regularly in this play, and we can typically work from a recorded affidavit of heirship or an existing Oklahoma probate record to confirm the current owner before drafting a deed.

We also confirm whether your tract's pooling order addressed a specific spacing unit size, since Oklahoma allows units in this play to range from a single governmental section up to much larger multi-section units depending on the operator's development plan, and unit size directly affects how many other tracts share in the same production alongside yours.