Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator Instructions]. Your first question will come from the line of Mr. John Freeman from Raymond James. Please proceed.
John Freeman - Raymond James
Good morning, guys.
Harold G. Hamm - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, John.
John D. Hart - Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Good morning.
John Freeman - Raymond James
First thing I want to kind of drill down on is Red River in terms of the capital expenditures there I'm trying to understand maybe where I might have been confused previously. My understanding that this year $184 million of it was being spent roughly on the CapEx at Red River that about half of that amount was either infrastructure or water related issues that we're going to have to be duplicating in next year and then with drilling activity going from roughly a little over five rigs to something less than two rigs next year that the reduction at Red River would be able to be a lot more than it looks like it will be for '09? So I guess that's the first question just maybe what and where the disconnect was?
Harold G. Hamm - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The disconnect is that the rig count even though we're drop into two rigs, they will continue throughout the year. We're prior when into the first part of the year with a higher number of rigs and we started dropping them out in May, July and November with dropping it down to two rigs will be occurring, spin about the same capital but this submit up out through the year a little bit and not fund and loading our expenditures.
John Freeman - Raymond James
And then were there any other like water related issues, maybe need more water disposable wells or whatever than what you anticipated last quarter?
Harold G. Hamm - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Well we... not additional water spy wells but we have, we have quite a bit of capital work over for converting wells into water injection that will be spent because we'll be converting quite a few wells in the first to second quarter, two water injection now that we have the plans that would be taken of production and including on so that's going to be some capital work over money that we go into
John Freeman - Raymond James
Okay. And then since the decline is now seems to be a little bit less even if the peak is lower, can you give me an idea of what that decline are you're expecting now?
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