101

This morning we hit the century mark, with 100 active rigs in North Dakota.

Today, at close of business, we increased that number by one, and we are now at 101 active rigs in North Dakota.

We are in uncharted territory now, folks.

The honor for the 101st well goes to EOG.

The rig is DHS 12. EOG spudded Kandiyohi 2-20H in Burke County, file # 18554 earlier today. Obviously the rig was in North Dakota prior to today, but this is the rig, when it began drilling, that put us over 100.

Interestingly enough, the Kandiyohi 2-20H is a wildcat, right on the edge of the northernmost section of the Clear Water field.

Update: actually I'm wrong on this. Although it is accurate that DHS 12 spudded yesterday, in fact there are nine (9) wells that are moving in and rigging up; one cannot tell by looking at NDIC's "daily activity report" which is the newest rig moving in and rigging up (MIRU), unless one tracks the names of the rigs every day, which I don't. Rigs in MIRU status are counted as active rigs.