Active Rigs In North Dakota At The Beginning Of A New Year -- Beginning The Seventh Year Of The North Dakota Bakken Boom

Active rigs:

	1/8/2014	01/08/2013	01/08/2012	01/08/2011	01/08/2010
Active Rigs	193	181	200	163	77

Active rigs, recent history:

January 8, 2014: 193
January 7, 2014: 190
January 7, 2014: 189
January 6, 2014: 186
January 3, 2014: 185
January 2, 2014: 186
December 31, 2013: 185/187
December 30, 2013: 187

December 16, 2013: 191

December 10, 2013: 193

November 26, 2013: jumped from 186 to 193.

I track milestones here.

I thought the recent jump was more dramatic, but perhaps not. I will leave it at that, for now.