Five acres is the floor on a set-aside drill pad, eight to ten if horizontal is possible in that area. The harder question is what you do in a play where nobody has written the rule of thumb yet.

What you'll walk away with:

• Where the five-acre minimum comes from and what it covers
• How Micah sized a Smackover set-aside with no precedent to work from
• What satellite imagery told him that the title company couldn't

Why it matters: In a new play the number already exists somewhere. Somebody is building there, and finding them is faster than guessing and cheaper than getting it wrong.

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