[spokeshave]

Number of active drilling rigs continue to fall.

This is not your fathers drilling rig:

The entire trig is movable on crawlers.....at each position drills typically 4 directional holes north and another 4 south....then moves east for another 8...repeat 8 times for 64 producing wells.

Completed production pad looks like this:

[thackney]

Number of wells completed per month continues to fall as well.