Active Drilling Rigs January 2016

January 11, 2016

U.S. Active Drilling Rigs January 2016

Bakken Total: 49 Montana: 0 North Dakota: 49 South Dakota: 0	Rocky Mountain Total: 75 Colorado: 22 New Mexico: 34 Utah: 3 Wyoming: 16	Central Plains Total: 94  Arkansas: 0 Kansas: 11 Oklahoma: 83	Gulf States Total: 39 Alabama: 0 Louisiana North: 26 Louisiana South: 8 Mississippi: 5
Texas Total: 305 Texas RRC District 1: 34 District 2: 33 District 3: 18 District 4: 9 District 5: 3 District 6: 16 District 7B: 5 District 7C: 30 District 8: 133 District 8A: 12 District 9: 3 District 10: 9		Marcellus Total: 51 Ohio: 14 Pennsylvania: 25 West Virginia: 12	*Data from January 8, 2016 RigData Report

Drillers

More wells were started by the top ten drillers in this month’s report compared to the previous month. (A total of 905 more wells, going from 12,540 to 13,445 well starts.)
*Data through 01/01/2016

Top 10 Drillers
Rank	Company	Footage Drilled	Well Starts
1	Helmerich & Payne, Inc	45,227,457	3,898
2	Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC	26,653,597	2,257
3	Nabors Industries, Ltd.	22,606,285	2,282
4	Ensign Energy Services, Inc.	9,127,513	1,183
5	Precision Drilling Trust	9,036,612	909
6	Unit Corporation	7,997,066	702
7	Seventy Seven Energy, Inc.	7,784,325	705
8	Trinidad Energy Services Income Trust	6,472,238	615
9	Xtreme Drilling and Coil Services Corp	4,902,672	404
10	Cactus Drilling Company, LLC	4,784,639	490

Operators

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Marathon Oil Corporation remain as the top two operators, drilling a combined almost 20 million feet and almost 1,500 well starts.
*Data through 01/01/2016

Top 10 Operators
Rank	Company	Footage Drilled	Well Starts
1	Anadarko Petroleum Corporation	12,111,066	1,053
2	Marathon Oil Corporation	7,817,560	443
3	Exxon Mobil Corporation	7,677,950	928
4	Chesapeake Energy Corporation	7,372,143	681
5	EOG Resources, Inc.	7,116,109	653
6	Pioneer Natural Resources Company	6,529,928	442
7	ConocoPhillips Company	5,811,178	542
8	QEP Resources, Inc.	5,001,547	408
9	Continental Resources, Inc.	4,903,144	452
10	BHP Billiton, Limited	4,669,518	336

Data source rigdata.com