By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 22 -- Rotary rig activity in Canada and the US continued to surge this week with the addition of 34 active rigs, reported Baker Hughes Inc. July 22. Canada showed the greatest increase, with a net gain of 28 active units, for a total of 521 working. The US gained 6 units to 1,410.
The rig total for the two countries is 335 more than in the same week last year.
In the US, 5 of the newly active units were in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing the gulf's total to 100 rigs working. Rigs in inland waters declined by 1 to 24. Onshore gains of 8 rigs in Louisiana, 4 in California, and 1 each in Wyoming and Colorado were partly offset by declines of 3 each in Oklahoma and Texas, and 2 each in Alaska and New Mexico.