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Vertical Well Completions Continue in Oklahoma

From The Oklahoman Oklahoma’s oil and gas operators haven’t completely abandoned drilling vertical, or “straight hole” wells, Corporation Commission records show. It reported that 197 wells of the 1,003 completed in 2016 were straight hole wells. Granted, that’s down from a recent high of 858 vertical wells permitted in 2011 and completed by June the following year, when that represented