Director's Cut Has Been Released -- November 17, 2020

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Director's Cut has been released. Link here. 

Crude oil production:

• September, 2020: 1,223,107 bopd (final)
• August, 2020: 1,165,371 bopd (final)
• a 4.954% increase month-over-month
• an increase of almost 60,000 bopd month-over-month
  

Four counties in North Dakota produce as much oil as Libya.

Natural gas production:

• September, 2020: 2,815,112 MCF/day (final0
• captured: 93%
• August, 2020: 81,692,742 MCF (final)
• captured: 92%

Active rigs (oil and gas):

• today: 12
• October: 12 (NDIC says 14, but that probably included two non-oil-and-gas rigs)
• September: 11
• August: 12

So: number of rigs in September were less than the number of rigs in August, and yet production in September was significantly more than production in August. Hmmm.

Wells:

• October:
• permitted: 74

• September:
  
• permitted: 51
• completed: 43 (preliminary) --> 76 (revised)
  
• inactive: 3,749
• DUCs: 793
• total off line for operational reasons: 4,542
• producing: 15,377 (preliminary)

• August:
  
• permitted: 47
• completed: 19 (revised)
• inactive: 2,719
• DUCs: 846
• total off line for operational reasons: 3,565
• producing: 15,149

• July:
  
• completed: 59 (final)

DUCs and inactive wells are tracked at this site.