Mississippi Lime Mineral Rights

What Is the Mississippi Lime?

The Mississippi Lime (sometimes called the Mississippian play, Mississippian Limestone, or "Miss Lime") is a Mississippian-age carbonate interval producing oil and gas across northern Oklahoma and adjacent southern Kansas. The play covers a broad area of the Cherokee Platform and northern Anadarko Shelf and was the focus of intensive horizontal drilling activity from approximately 2010 through 2015. Activity has continued at a lower pace through 2026, with selective horizontal development and refracturing in the better-performing trends.

Geology

Age: Mississippian (~340 million years)

Depth: Approximately 4,000–7,500 feet TVD across the producing trend

Lithology: Cherty limestone with variable porosity from leached chert and dolomitization; strong vertical and lateral heterogeneity

Hydrocarbon window: Oil-rich in updip eastern positions; gas-prone downdip

Water cut: Many Mississippi Lime wells produce significant formation water requiring saltwater disposal infrastructure

Counties With Mississippi Lime Activity

Pawnee County, OK — Mississippi Lime horizontal core

Lincoln County, OK — Active Miss Lime + Hunton play

Okfuskee County, OK — Mississippi Lime + Cleveland Sand

Payne County, OK — Cushing-area Miss Lime + Hunton

Woods, Alfalfa, Grant, Garfield, Major, Kay, Noble Counties (OK) — Northern Oklahoma trend

Sumner, Harper, Barber, Comanche Counties (KS) — Southern Kansas Miss Lime extension

Selling Mississippi Lime Mineral Rights

Buckhead Energy buys mineral and royalty interests across the Mississippi Lime producing trend.