SCOOP & STACK Mineral Rights

SCOOP and STACK get lumped together so often that it's easy to forget they're two separate plays with their own geography, and that distinction is where any honest value conversation has to start.

STACK, which stands for Sooner Trend Anadarko Basin Canadian and Kingfisher counties, targets the Woodford and Meramec formations mainly in Kingfisher, Canadian, Blaine, and Major counties in central Oklahoma. SCOOP, the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province, sits further south in counties like Grady, Stephens, Garvin, and McClain, targeting similar Woodford and Springer-era rock but with its own distinct development history. Both plays emerged as part of the broader unconventional development of the Anadarko Basin's deeper source rocks during the 2010s, and both attracted significant operator investment at their peaks.

Each play also splits internally between oil, condensate, and gas windows depending on depth and location, similar to how the Eagle Ford does in Texas, which means the STACK or SCOOP label alone doesn't tell a buyer as much as knowing the specific county and product window your tract sits in.

STACK's Core Counties Have Carried Its Value

Kingfisher and Canadian counties have generally seen the densest, most consistent STACK development, with substantial horizontal Woodford and Meramec drilling supporting strong per-well economics in the play's early years. Mineral offers here have tended to track that core-county concentration, with less-developed surrounding counties drawing more conservative interest.

SCOOP Has Its Own Oil and Gas Windows

Grady and Stephens counties sit in SCOOP's more oil-and-condensate-rich areas, while parts of the play trend toward drier gas further south and east. As with any windowed play, that means two SCOOP tracts in different counties, or even different parts of the same county, can be priced against fairly different commodity assumptions, so it's worth confirming which window applies before comparing to a general SCOOP figure.

Both Plays Cooled From Their Mid-2010s Peak

SCOOP and STACK both saw intense drilling activity and significant private equity and public company investment during the mid-2010s, followed by a slower, more selective pace in the years since as operators focused capital on their most productive acreage. That doesn't mean either play is inactive — both still see ongoing development in their strongest areas — but the broad, expansion-era enthusiasm has given way to a more targeted approach, which is worth keeping in mind when evaluating an offer on acreage outside the established core.

Overlap With the Broader Anadarko Basin Story

Both SCOOP and STACK sit within the larger Anadarko Basin and target some of the same Woodford source rock that's been produced conventionally and unconventionally in the region for years. Some tracts carry legacy vertical well history from before the horizontal boom, similar to what shows up elsewhere in the Anadarko Basin, which is worth checking alongside recent horizontal permit activity when trying to understand your minerals' full history.

Checking Which Play and Window Applies to Your Tract

Given how much the specific county and product window matter to value in both SCOOP and STACK, pulling recent completion data from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission for your specific section is a more reliable starting point than a general SCOOP-or-STACK figure. That data typically shows which formation was targeted, roughly what the well is producing, and how recently it was completed, all of which tell you more about your tract's realistic value than the play name alone.