Fourteen Active Rigs; Eight DUCs Reported As Completed; 347 Wells Change Hands -- February 1, 2021

Whoo-hoo! WTI is up almost 3%, up $1.44; now trading at $53.64. 

The US dollar index (common knowledge for most folks). Quick:

• how many major world currencies make up the US dollar index?
• name five of those countries.

Link here. 

Quick look here.  One year here. 

Silver: LOL -- silver finished lower today; closed at $28.73, down 2.34%; down 69 cents. Link here. 

Ten-year Treasury: at 1.081%, flat.

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Active rigs:

$53.64	2/1/2021	02/01/2020	02/01/2019	02/01/2018	02/01/2017
Active Rigs	14	54	64	58	40

Rigs by operator:

• MRO: 4
• CLR: 2
• WPX: 1
• Slawson: 1
• Whiting: 1
• Petro-Hunt: 1
• Oasis: 1
• Hess: 1
• Ovintiv: 1
• BR: 1

Something new: eight salt water disposal permits renewed.

In case you missed it: Hess reported a very, very nice well -- see more here:

• 37066, conf-->loc/A, Hess, EN-Labar-154-94-1003H-9, 33-061-04618, Alkali Creek, first production, 8/20; t--; cum 143K 12/20; fracked 5/28/20 - 6/5/20: 6.5 million gallons of water; 83.8% water by mass;

Eight producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed, data to be posted later:

• 30539, SI/A, Slawson, Badger 1 SLH, 33-061-03543, Big Bend, fracked 9/18/20 - 9/30/20; 13.6 million gallons of water; 92% water by mass; no production data,
  
• 28113, drl/A, Slawson, Sniper Federal 6-6-7TFH, 33-061-03069, Big Bend, fracked 10/3/20 - 10/16/20; 14.7 million gallons of water; 92.2% water by mass;
  
• 28114, dlr/A, Slawson, Sniper Federal 7-6-7TFH, 33-061-03070, Big Bend, fracked 10/3/20 - 10/16/20; 14.8 million gallons ofwater; 92.3% water by mass;
  
• 36548, drl/A, Oasis,Thelen 5297 11-6 4B, 33-053-09085, Banks, first production, 7/20; t--; cum 77K 12/20; fracked 3/2/20 - 3/20/20; 14.8 million gallons of water; 92.8% water by mass;
  
• 33761, drl/A, Crescent Point Energy, CPEUSC Jean 7-9-4-157N-99W TFH, 33-105-04488, Lone Tree Lake, no frack data,
  
• 33762, drl/A, Crescent Point Energy, CPEUSC Jean 7-9-4-157N-99W MBH, 33-105-04489, Lone Tree Lake, no frack data,
• 36486, SI/A, CLR, Sefolosha 4-23H, 33-105-05194, Epping, fracked 2/8/20- 2/22/20; 8.7 million gallons of water; 86.6% water by mass;
  
• 36224, drl/A, MRO, Valerie USA 21-2H, 33-053-08985, Antelope-Sanish, 35K over 12 days extrapolates to 88K bbls over 30 days; fracked 11/21/20 - 12/8/20; 6.6 million gallons of water; 39.5% fresh water by mass; 46.9% produced water by mass;
  

Change of operator: six pages, from Newfield Production Company to Ovintiv Production, Inc.
I count 347 wells in that list. See this post.