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US Oil Rig Count Tumbles Most In 2 Years

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We warned just a week ago that the lag between initial price declines in oil and the closure of rigs was between 4 and 6 months and just as we warned of the deja-vu all over again, Banker Hughes reports that the Rig Count this week dropped the most since March 2013 (oil rigs dropped 29 to 1546 - biggest weekly drop in 2 years). The biggest drop was seen in the Permian Basin (down 20 to 548). Of course, it's being ignored for now, just as it was in 2008...

 

Worst weekly drop in rig count since March 2013...

 

With Oil Rigs down 3rd most in 5 years...

 

And as a reminder, what happened last time...

 

Unequivocally good...

 

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:29 | 5545266 NoDebt
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The market is helping them understand their malinvestment.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 15:09 | 5545428 astoriajoe
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Such a quaint, outdated notion in this age of central monetary planning.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 17:30 | 5546143 Jumbotron
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Watch this accelerate when Brent breaks 59 by the end of the month if not next week.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:30 | 5545269 Glass Seagull
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As it should.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:30 | 5545270 buzzsaw99
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BHI is driving the pain train.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:46 | 5545321 ZippyBananaPants
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We rigged some folks

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:53 | 5545341 Harbanger
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Bankrupt US oil, start a war with Russia.  What could go wrong?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:53 | 5545343 buzzsaw99
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bhi also does "hole enlargement". we reamed some folks. ??

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:30 | 5545278 mattgallis
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It's okay, RIG upped their dividend to $0.75

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:34 | 5545296 Glass Seagull
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Trying to shake off the schatz.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:42 | 5545315 CrimsonAvenger
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OK, but remember, if you shake it more than twice you're playing with it.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 16:43 | 5545856 mattgallis
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shook to it 18%, no rise in the stock price though :-/

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:31 | 5545279 I am Jobe
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IPADS and Venues have come down in price/SARC

Amerikan Sheeple

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:33 | 5545289 Winston Churchill
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Just as well you can't eat WTI.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:47 | 5545323 Cthonic
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Watch for resurgence in plastic rice and melamine formula.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:54 | 5545347 Hohum
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Not directly anyway.  Modern agriculture does it indirectly.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:41 | 5545308 richiebaby
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Are you saying even the rigs are rigged?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:43 | 5545317 Disc Jockey
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And award for Pun of the Day goes too....richiebaby.  Well played sir.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:43 | 5545313 firstdivision
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However, NG rig count has kinda done the opposite. 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:43 | 5545316 Bill of Rights
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Bulgaria Cut to Junk by S&P as Bank Weakness Strains Budget

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-12/bulgaria-s-credit-rating-cut-to...

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:46 | 5545322 blown income
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Would like to see Lafayette LA return to some type of normal

 

All the bitches walk around with noses in the air ..all the overpriced fucking housing from all the oil related businesses

 

New generations that were not here when Lafayette went to the shitter in the bust years ago....

 

All they seem to know is 500k homes shopping at River Ranch...whole foods...chic shopping  ...the men with every fucking toy ...I swear it seems every fucker here has a big bus or huge 5th wheel trailers and the latest 4 wheel at that hits the market....new cars, trucks ...boats...you would think fuckers pumping oil out the kitchen faucet.. 

 

Men and women bunch of snotty bitches...rare I come across ' normal' attitudes...

 

I don't even bother holding doors for people anymore unless it's someone elderly. ...

 

Sucks as since being unemployed I tried to get on with the energy sector...if you ain't connected...know someone ..

 

Forget about it..there not hiring you...

 

Fuck that click shit...

 

 

 

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 15:06 | 5545381 rejected
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Apparently hasn't changed much when I worked out of there in the 80's/90's with Marathon.

 

EDIT: was layed off with the bust. Marathon was a great company to work for until US Steel got a hold of them.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:46 | 5545325 TrumpXVI
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We stopped renting rigs from some folks.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:51 | 5545336 Cthonic
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And nearly 4x the peak rig count of 2008.  JFClampett!

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:52 | 5545342 Hohum
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"Banker Hughes?"  I guess Baker Hughes is controlled by the bankers, too.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 14:59 | 5545368 rejected
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Damned Ruskies better give in quick or we're toast! /s

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 16:06 | 5545666 HowdyDoody
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There is no Russian equivalent of 'give in'

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 17:34 | 5546168 Jumbotron
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"They're dug in deeper than an Alabama tick"

 

Jessie Ventura...."Predator"

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 15:23 | 5545500 vincent
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But the Experts on the tube say Bakken is profitable at 38

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 15:50 | 5545609 Hohum
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https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/stats/historicalbakkenoilstats.pdf

Does "profitable" mean less oil per day but 118 more wells?

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 16:02 | 5545654 roadhazard
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I love $2. a gallon gas.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 17:01 | 5545963 Hagen
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ZERO HEDGE YOU ARE A LIAR AND YOU ARE NOT RELEVANT.

Here:

Baker Hughes Announces November 2014 Rig Counts

HOUSTON, Dec. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI) announced today that the international rig count for November 2014 was 1,324, up 16 from the 1,308 counted in October 2014, and up 13 from the 1,311 counted in November 2013. The international offshore rig count for November 2014 was 341, up 15 from the 326 counted in October 2014, and up 25 from the 316 counted in November 2013.

The average U.S. rig count for November 2014 was 1,925, unchanged from the 1,925 counted in October 2014, and up 169 from the 1,756 counted in November 2013. The average Canadian rig count for November 2014 was 421, down 3 from the 424 counted in October 2014, and up 36 from the 385 counted in November 2013.

The worldwide rig count for November 2014 was 3,670, up 13 from the 3,657 counted in October 2014, and up 218 from the 3,452 counted in November 2013.

 

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 17:29 | 5546137 Hohum
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Hagen,

Trend is not destiny.  We'll see if the 12/12 figures (not 12/5) show that.

Fri, 12/12/2014 - 18:32 | 5546414 Bumbu Sauce
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Maybe it was a good thing I decided to nix going to commercial diving school.

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 11:10 | 5547962 AdvancingTime
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