US drilling activity climbs at yearend

US drilling operations ended the year with a burst of activity, despite ice storms that lashed North Texas, Oklahoma and other areas of the Midwest. There were 1,114 rotary rigs working in the US and its waters this week, 27 more than the previous week and up from 771 a year ago.

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