Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). First question comes from the line of Scott Hanold with RBC Capital Markets.
Scott Hanold - RBC Capital Markets
Great results in the Buffalo Wallow area. Can you give a little color is there going to be any changes to your plans in development given that recent success? You did indicate I guess an offset operator had a 20 million plus per day rate in a deeper formation. Is that something you're testing on some of your acreage that you operate as well?
Craig Clark
Yes. In fact, we have working interest on one of those wells. So, the short answer is yes. The program will change, and one of the difficulties we've had in the past, you know, we have been there a while , and the difficult is we had vertical rates, and we wanted to able exceed those because of the higher cost of the horizontal, and I think we are there.
Now, you will have more horizontal activity, and it will vary across the acreage in terms of what zone it is because we've tested I think everything from the Morrow all the way through the Atoka, but most of the activity that we spoke of to date on the horizontal side has been Granite Wash.
Scott Hanold - RBC Capital Markets
Is there opportunity, and obviously when you go horizontal you've got to pick your interval, but is there an opportunity where you have prospectivity in sort of a shallower and a deeper zone horizontally?
Craig Clark
Yes. That's correct. As you know, one of the issues I guess of horizontal, and what we did that in East Texas in the Cotton Valley is, you need to find one lobe, because we average about four or five fracs a well vertically is you need to find one lobe that contributes a disproportionate amount of production, in some cases water-free.
So, we've got a lot of testing out there, and I like to have a nickel for every zone we perforated, but I think we've landed on the right one, and there will be multiple opportunities even in the same well much like you would have in East Texas. That's one reason I like this area like East Texas, you get the multi-pay although it doesn't normally have all of the neat names like East Texas has got.
Scott Hanold - RBC Capital Markets
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