SCOOP and STACK

SCOOP and STACK are the two defining stacked-pay plays of the Anadarko Basin in western and south-central Oklahoma. Both names are acronyms tied to geography. SCOOP stands for South Central Oklahoma Oil Province. STACK stands for Sooner Trend Anadarko Basin Canadian and Kingfisher, naming the trend and the two core counties.

The SCOOP sits in the deeper southern part of the basin and is built on the Woodford as its foundational target, with the Springer and Sycamore stacked above it. It runs across Grady, Stephens, Garvin, and neighboring counties.

The STACK sits to the northwest and is led by the Mississippian Meramec and the Osage below it, with the Woodford present as a deeper bench. It is centered on Kingfisher and Canadian counties.

The common thread is that both are stacked plays: several productive formations sit in a vertical column, and operators develop them together by drilling multiple horizontal wells from one surface location. For a mineral owner, that is why a single tract can produce from more than one formation, each with its own decimal interest, and why several formation names can appear on the same set of documents.

Development across the Anadarko Basin is governed by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which sets spacing and runs the force-pooling process that brings a drilling unit together. If your Oklahoma minerals fall in the SCOOP or STACK, we are happy to help you understand which play and formations are involved, on a call or by email.