A huge "thank you" to CRC for
this link: San Antonio-based company building ten walking rigs to accommodate pad drilling; seven of those ten rigs will be going to the Bakken.
Data points:
- seven rigs headed for the Bakken
- two rigs for the Marcellus
- one rigs to the company's backyard, the Eagle Ford
- 1,500 hp rigs with 2,000 hp mud pumps
- with the additional delivery, Pioneer will operate 16 drilling rigs in the Bakken
- walking rigs preferred to skidding
When the Eagle Ford is in their backyard, and they still plan to send 70% of their new rigs to the Bakken it tells me that the Bakken is well into the mining stage, as they call it. I assume you all noticed in the June dockets that
Hess would be drilling up to 9 wells in their spacing units.