OKAY: Here It Is -- A New Record -- 160 -- North Dakota, USA

The NDIC website now (November 18, 2010; a.m.) shows 160 active rigs in North Dakota. A new record.

I am truly impressed.

Along with the 160 rigs, we are seeing record number of permits (per the Director's Cut). A year ago, it seemed I was transcribing 4 - 8 new permits every day; perhaps averaging about 5 new permits/day. Now, I am surprised if the list is less than 10 new permits every day, and generally it's been 13 - 15.

Whiting seems, at the moment, to being the most common name I see on the new permits list: Whiting has their "cash cow" in the Sanish, and is now opening up the Lewis and Clark prospect it seems. By the way, Whiting did show an increase by one; Whiting now has 15 rigs in North Dakota.

CLR must have a huge backlog of permits to work through; I don't see it's name come up quite as often, despite having clearly the most active rigs in North Dakota.

Anyway, rambling, sorry. We have a new record: 160. Where will we get all the fracking crews? (Rhetorical question; no need to respond.)