Active Rigs In North Dakota By Operator -- April 5, 2017

Updates

April 10, 2017: the number of active rigs jumped from 48 to 52. Since the previous report, this was the increase in active rigs (CLR, Enerplus, Kraken Operating, and Hess each increased by one):

• CLR: went from 4 up to 5
• Enerplus: went from 2 up to 3
• Kraken Operating: went from 1 up to 2
• Hess: went from 3 up to 4 

Original Post

From the NDIC, April 5, 2017.

Operator	Number of Rigs
MRO	11
Whiting	5
BR	4
CLR	4
Hess	3
Enerplus	2
Oasis	2
Petro Hunt	2
Statoil	2
WPX	2
XTO	2
Abraxas	1
Crescent Point	1
Halcon	1
Kraken	1
Liberty Resources	1
Lime Rock	1
McKenzie Energy (SWD)	1
Newfield	1
QEP	1
Slawson	1

After some recent posts, I was surprised to see that Statoil had two active rigs in North Dakota. But what really surprised me was that considering how active Slawson seems to be, Slawson has only one active rig in North Dakota.

The recent count has been as high as 51, so there may be two more rigs out there that will show up over the next few days.

Note: McKenzie Energy has one rig drilling a salt water disposal well.