Now, the Uinta: Drillers are Taking Utah’s Oily Stacked Pay Horizontal, at Last

Recently unconstrained by new rail capacity, operators are now putting laterals into the oily, western side of this long-producing basin that comes with little associated gas and little water, making it compete with the Permian Basin.

Pads, tank batteries, pumpjacks, pipe and other oilfield iconography of the Monument Butte Field in the southwestern Uinta Basin where operators are landing laterals today in a stacked oil pay. (Source: Brooke Hadlock Photography)

By
Nissa
Darbonne
Oil and Gas Investor

The Uinta Basin’s history is steeped in names that have come and gone, often departing for oil prizes unconstrained by the Uinta’s takeaway issues of the past.

An A&D broker could run a standalone shop just on trading basin property and marketing farm-ins and farmouts, drill-to-earns, joint ventures and other deals.

But today, the two-decade-old stimulated horizontal revolution has discovered this corner of Utah as market constraint has been unlocked for the basin’s valuable, but complicated, waxy crude. While 1.1 Bbbl of oil have already been produced, the Uinta was late to wildcatting from its start—drilling didn’t begin until the 1940s.

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Nissa Darbonne

Nissa Darbonne is author of The American Shales and has been a journalist since 1984, beginning in the oil and gas fields of South Louisiana. She writes for Oil and Gas Investor and is actively involved in Hart's conference agendas.

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Now, the Uinta: Drillers are Taking Utah’s Oily Stacked Pay Horizontal, at Last

Recently unconstrained by new rail capacity, operators are now putting laterals into the oily, western side of this long-producing basin that comes with little associated gas and little water, making it compete with the Permian Basin.

Pads, tank batteries, pumpjacks, pipe and other oilfield iconography of the Monument Butte Field in the southwestern Uinta Basin where operators are landing laterals today in a stacked oil pay. (Source: Brooke Hadlock Photography)

By
Nissa
Darbonne
Oil and Gas Investor

The Uinta Basin’s history is steeped in names that have come and gone, often departing for oil prizes unconstrained by the Uinta’s takeaway issues of the past.

An A&D broker could run a standalone shop just on trading basin property and marketing farm-ins and farmouts, drill-to-earns, joint ventures and other deals.

But today, the two-decade-old stimulated horizontal revolution has discovered this corner of Utah as market constraint has been unlocked for the basin’s valuable, but complicated, waxy crude. While 1.1 Bbbl of oil have already been produced, the Uinta was late to wildcatting from its start—drilling didn’t begin until the 1940s.

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