The US drilling rig count remained flat to end 2021 with 586 rotary rigs working the week of Dec. 31, 2021, said Baker Hughes.
Land operations held at 570 rigs working. Offshore drilling rigs were unchanged at 15, all in the Gulf of Mexico. Inland waters activity was unchanged at 1 unit.
Of the rigs working, 480 were drilling for oil, unchanged from the previous week. Units drilling for gas were unchanged at 106. Directional drilling rigs fell slightly to 30 rigs, down 1 from the previous week. Vertical drilling dropped a rig to 26.
New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana each added a single rig to increase counts to 94, 49, and 49, respectively.
The rig count in Texas fell by 2 to reach 277 rigs working to end the year. Utah dropped a single rig to reach 9 rigs working.
Eight states were unchanged for the week, namely North Dakota, 27; Pennsylvania, 19; Wyoming, 15; Colorado, 12; Ohio, 11; West Virginia, 10; California, 8; and Alaska, 5.
Canada’s rig count dropped by 43 to 90, up from 59 during the same period in 2020.
