North America added 94 rigs week on week, in keeping with Baker Hughes’ newest North America rotary rig depend, which was revealed on January 9.
Though the whole U.S. rig depend dropped by two week on week, the whole Canada rig depend elevated by 96 throughout the identical interval, pushing the whole North America rig depend as much as 741, comprising 544 rigs from the U.S. and 197 rigs from Canada, the depend outlined.
Of the whole U.S. rig depend of 544, 525 rigs are categorized as land rigs, 16 are categorized as offshore rigs, and three are categorized as inland water rigs. The full U.S. rig depend is made up of 409 oil rigs, 124 fuel rigs, and 11 miscellaneous rigs, in keeping with Baker Hughes’ depend, which revealed that the U.S. whole includes 475 horizontal rigs, 57 directional rigs, and 12 vertical rigs.
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Week on week, the U.S. land rig depend dropped by two, and its offshore and inland water rig counts remained unchanged, Baker Hughes highlighted. The U.S. oil rig depend dropped by three week on week, its fuel rig depend dropped by one, and its miscellaneous rig depend elevated by two week on week, the depend confirmed. The U.S. horizontal rig depend dropped by one, its vertical rig depend dropped by two, and its directional rig depend elevated by one, week on week, the depend revealed.
A serious state variances subcategory included within the rig depend confirmed that, week on week, Louisiana dropped three rigs, and New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming every dropped one rig. Utah added 4 rigs and Colorado added one rig week on week, the depend highlighted.
A serious basin variances subcategory included within the rig depend confirmed that, week on week, the Permian basin dropped three rigs, the Haynesville, Mississippian, and Williston basins every dropped one rig, and the Granite wash basin added one rig.
Canada’s whole rig depend of 197 is made up of 128 oil rigs and 69 fuel rigs, Baker Hughes identified. Week on week, the nation’s oil rig depend elevated by 79, its fuel rig depend rose by 17, and its miscellaneous rig depend remained unchanged, the depend revealed.
The full North America rig depend is down 59 rigs in comparison with yr in the past ranges, in keeping with Baker Hughes’ depend, which confirmed that the U.S. has minimize 40 rigs and Canada has minimize 19 rigs, yr on yr. The U.S. has dropped 71 oil rigs and added 24 fuel rigs and 7 miscellaneous rigs, whereas Canada has dropped 16 oil rigs and three fuel rigs, yr on yr, the depend outlined.
In its earlier depend, which was revealed on December 30, Baker Hughes revealed that North America dropped 16 rigs week on week. The full U.S. rig depend rose by one week on week and the whole Canada rig depend decreased by 17 throughout the identical interval, that depend confirmed.
Baker Hughes’ December 23 depend revealed that North America dropped 64 rigs week on week, its December 19 rig depend revealed that North America’s rig depend dropped by 13 week on week, its December 12 depend confirmed that North America’s rig depend remained unchanged week on week, and its December 5 rig depend revealed that North America added eight rigs week on week.
In keeping with month-to-month rig depend abstract figures in Baker Hughes’ newest depend, the North America rig depend stood at 694 in January 2026 and 718 in December 2025. The newest depend outlined that that the North America rig depend stood at 739 in November 2025, 741 in October 2025, 728 in September 2025, 717 in August 2025, 707 in July 2025, 687 in June 2025, 690 in Might 2025, 725 in April 2025, 786 in March 2025, 836 in February 2025, and 791 in January 2025.
Archived Baker Hughes information, which Rigzone was directed to by the Baker Hughes staff, outlined that the North America rig depend stood at 751 in December 2024, 789 in November 2024, 804 in October, September, and August 2024, 779 in July 2024, 750 in June 2024, 722 in Might 2024, 748 in April 2024, 822 in March 2024, 855 in February 2024, and 818 in January 2024.
This information outlined that, in 2023, the North America rig depend stood at 784 in December, 816 in November, 814 in October, 819 in September, 836 in August, 858 in July, 832 in June, 817 in Might, 861 in April, 948 in March, 1,006 in February, and 998 in January.
Going additional again, this information outlined that, in 2020, the North America rig depend stood at 432 in December, 405 in November, 361 in October, 316 in September, 303 in August, 288 in July, 292 in June, 371 in Might, 598 in April, 904 in March, 1,039 in February, and 996 in January.
Baker Hughes states on its website that it has issued rig counts as a service to the petroleum trade since 1944, when Baker Hughes Software Firm started weekly counts of U.S. and Canadian drilling exercise. On its website, the corporate describes the figures as “an essential enterprise barometer for the drilling trade and its suppliers”. The corporate notes on its website that working rig location info is supplied partly by Enverus.
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