Friday, September 16, 2016

Director's Cut With July, 2016, Data -- September 16, 2016

Link here. Lots of new federal rules, proposed and existing. Bismarck Tribune story here.

Reminder: this is always done quickly; there may be typographical and factual errors. If this information is important to you, go to the source.

Crude oil production:
  • July: 1,029,507 bopd
  • June: 1,027,131 bopd
  • Delta: 2,376 bopd
  • Delta: 0.2 percent
% Producing wells:
  • July: 13,255 (preliminary, all-time high)
  • June: 13,248
Crude oil production / well:
  • July: 77.7
  • June: 77.5
  • For newbies: at the height of the boom, production per well in North Dakota had approached 100 bbls/day; unfettered, wells can easily move back to 100+ bbls/day; this gives one an idea of how much wells have been choked back or take off-line periodically.
Permitting:
  • August: 99
  • July: 86
  • June: 65
Pricing:
  • Today: $32.00
  • August: $33.73
  • July: $35.57
  • June: $38.75
  • May: $33.74
Well completions:
  • July: 41
  • June: 44
  • May: 45
  • In August, 2016, 26 wells came off the confidential list.
DUCs:
  • Today: 912
  • End of July: 887
  • End of June: 931
Inactive well count:
  • Today: 1,472
  • End of July: 1,486
  • End of June: 1,584
Percentage of gas flared: increased to 10.5% from 9.8% the previous month
  • Target: 91% capture rate by November 1, 2020
  • Tioga gas plant still at only 82% capacity
  • gas gathering project south of Lake Sakakawea now estimated completion in January, 2017 -- not long from now -- but huge bureaucratic delay 

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