The Director's Cut Has Been Posted -- November, 2018, Data; Number Of Producing Wells Drops; Crude Oil Production Drops A Little Over 1%

Updates

January 16, 2019: short article in The Williston Herald.  

Original Post 

Link here.

... and the number is ... 1,375,803 bopd -- just shy of the all-time record set last month. But clearly it was due to number of wells taken off line:

Producing wells:

• November, 2018: 15,237
• October, 2018: 15,352 (revised up from 15,344) -- a new all-time high
• a delta of (115)
• delta, percent: a decrease of slightly less than 1%

Production, boe:

• crude oil: 1,375,803 bopd (operators self-restricted about 100,000 bopd according to The Williston Herald
• natural gas: 2,522,875 = 420,409 boepd
• total boe: 1,796,212 boepd

Legacy Fund deposits could be disappointing in January, 2019. 

Producing wells:

• November, 2018: 15,237
• October, 2018: 15,352 (revised up from 15,344) -- a new all-time high
• a delta of (115)
• delta, percent: a decrease of slightly less than 1%
  

Link here.

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The Director's Cut for the November, 2019, data has been posted. It will download as a PDF on your desktop.

Last month's production number -- an all-time high -- was revised upward to: 1,392,369 bodp (the original estimate was 1,391,877 bopd). 

Crude oil production:

• November, 2018: 1,375,803 bopd
• October, 2018: hits a new all-time high, revised-- 1,392,369 bopd
• delta, bbls: (16,566)
• delta, percent: a decrease of 1.2% month-over-month

Producing wells:

• November, 2018: 15,237
• October, 2018: 15,344 -- a new all-time high

Natural gas production:

• November, 2018, 2,522,875 MCF/day
• October, 2018: 2,561,988 MCF/day, revised slightly down from 2,562,465 MCF/day) -- an all-time high
• delta, cubic feet: 35,031 Mcf/d
• delta, percent: 1.4%

Permitting:

• December, 2018: 92
• November, 2018: 116
• October, 2018: 183
• September, 2018: 113

Off line:

• DUCs: 957, down 2 from last report (tracked here)
• inactive: 1,381, up 18 from last report
• total: 2,338 (up from 2,322 in the last report; this is way more than the total number of wells that will be drilled in North Dakota this year)

Flaring:

• statewide, captured: 1,995,853 Mcf/day -- daily rate (November, 2018); slightly less than last month
• statewide, capture: 79% -- 80% last month; and, 82% the month before
• FBIR Bakken: 73% -- same as the previous month
• current goal: 88%