How many acres in current drilling units

Back in the days of vertical wells the drilling units were 40 acres. How many acres are required now for a horizontal drilling unit?

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Permalink Reply by Jim Pollock on February 22, 2023 at 8:23am
Not sure on the minimum but the ones around us are around 700 acres
Permalink Reply by Joe C. on February 22, 2023 at 4:58pm

You can look up a Declaration of pooling and unitization (DPU) in the county courthouse. The operator files this document when finalizing a unit. Note: the operator can amend this DPU. It will tell you how many total acres the said unit holds. 

Permalink Reply by Tusc-county-man on February 23, 2023 at 4:16am
depends. on how long the lateral will be. i have seen units as small as 162 acres
Permalink Reply by Dott on February 23, 2023 at 9:23am

Kathi,

With longer and longer laterals the companies are trying to expand the unit size in the leases for horizontal. A year ago my lease was

1280 acres with 10% tolerance

Permalink Reply by pinehill on February 23, 2023 at 10:02am

We recently signed a lease that said 1400 acres. Our last lease was 1270 acres.  

Permalink Reply by Toytown on April 4, 2023 at 12:25am
Most of the units in NE PA have a max of 640 acres. A lot are smaller. But what the drillers do now is drill 10,000 foot laterals and go through 2 or 3 units and pay out proportionately.

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