Director's Cut -- March, 2021, Data -- Posted

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Later, 11:04 p.m. CT: from Geoff Simon's top ND energy stories -- 

Following what was mainly a winter-related drop in February, North Dakota oil production climbed back over 1.1 million barrels a day in March.

Lynn Helms, director of the Department of Mineral Resources, said March production increased an average of about 25,000 barrels a day, coming in at 1,108,441 bbl/day. Helms said completion activity was buoyed by much-improved oil prices, which he said are currently averaging about 12 percent above the legislature's revenue forecast.

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March, 2021, data. This is all preliminary data for March, 2021. When the final number is tallied (next month), it will reveal a slight increase in production month-over-month):

Crude price (ND light sweet):

• today: $57.00
• April, 2021: $55.35
  
• March, 2021: $54.38
  
• February, 2021: $49.13
  
• January, 2021: $41.77
• December, 2020: $37.70
• November, 2020: 33.22

Crude oil production:

• March, 2021: 1,108,441 (preliminary)
  
• February, 2021: 1,083,554 bopd (final)
  
• January, 2021: 1,147,374 (preliminary); 1,147,377 (final)
  
• December: 1,192,145 (preliminary); 1,191,429 bopd (final)
  
• November: 1,224,540 (preliminary); 1,227,138 bopd (final)
  
• October: 1,222,871 bopd (preliminary); 1,231,048 bopd (final)
  
• delta: +24,887 bopd
  
• delta:+2.3%

Natural gas production:

• March, 2021: 2,878,598, (preliminary)
  
• February, 2021: 2,703,948 MCF (preliminary); 2,704,840 MCF / day (final)
  
• January, 2021: 2,847,719 MCF (preliminary); 2,849,283 MCF / day (final)
  
• December: 2,892,908 (preliminary); 2,888,626 MCF / day (final)
  
• November: 2,887,402 (preliminary); 2,890,376 MCF/day (final)
  
• October: 2,873,654 MCF/day (preliminary); 2,881,717 (final)
• delta: -145,335 MCF / day (-24,218 boepd)
  
• delta: -5.1%
  

Natural gas capture:

• March, 2021:  94%
  
• February, 2021: 92%
  
• January, 2021: 94%
• December, 94%
• November, 93%
• October, 93%

Rig count:

• today: 18 (no SWD or CS rigs)
• April, 2021: 17
  
• March, 2021: 15
  
• February, 2021: 15 (but may include CS and SWD)
• January: 12 (but may include CS and SWD)
• December: 14 (but may include CS and SWD)
• October: 14 (ditto)

Wells

April:

• drilling: 15
• completed: 31 (preliminary)

March:

• drilling: 55
• completed: 43 (revised)
• inactive: 2,351
• DUCs: 628
• total off line for operational reasons: 2,979
• producing: 16,207 (preliminary)

February:

• drilling: 72
• completed: 32 (final)
• inactive: 2,568
• DUCs: 662
• total off line for operational reasons: 3,230
  
• producing: 15,778

January:

• permitted: 66
• completed: 59 (revised)
• inactive: 2,597
• DUCs: 661
• total off line for operational reasons: 3,258
• producing: 15,861 (revised)
  

December, 2020:

• permitted: 66
• completed: 44 (final)
  
• inactive: 2,687
• DUCs: 668
  
• total off line for operational reasons: 3,355
  
• producing: 15,798 (preliminary)

November, 2020:

• permitted: 52
• completed: 44 (preliminary
• inactive: 2,870
• DUCs: 710
• total off line for operational reasons: 3,580 
• producing: 15,601 (preliminary)

October, 2020:

• permitted: 74
• completed: 59 (preliminary); 74 (revised)
  
• inactive: 2,934
• DUCs: 724
• total off line for operational reasons: 3,658
• producing: 15,512 (preliminary); 15,524 (final)

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