News on updated Rig counts

By ssbn727 (*****)

Date 12-10-2009 16:42

US rig count up slightly

Dec 7, 2009

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Dec. 7 -- US drilling activity increased slightly, up by 4 rotary rigs to 1,141 units compared with 1,852 during the comparable period in 2008, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.

Land drilling was unchanged with 1,089 rigs working. Inland water activity gained 2 rigs with 15 drilling. Offshore drilling increased by 3 rigs to 36 in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in a net gain of 2 to 37 in US waters.

Gas drilling was unchanged at 748 rigs. Drilling for oil increased by 4 units to 383. There were 10 rigs unclassified. Directional drilling decreased by 3 to 185 rigs. Horizontal drilling increased 8 rigs to 547.

Louisiana’s rig count was up by 7 to 176 in the week ended Dec. 4. Wyoming increased by 2 to 40 units drilling. Oklahoma, North Dakota, and California added 1 rig each for respective counts of 87, 61, and 25. New Mexico, Arkansas, and West Virginia were unchanged at 47, 40, and 22 respectively. Texas, Utah, and Alaska dropped 1 rig each for respective totals of 451, 17, and 7. Pennsylvania was down 3 rigs to 61. Colorado lost 4 to 37.

Canada’s weekly rig count jumped by 47 to 364, compared with 404 rigs working a year ago.

By Keplinger78 (**)

Date 12-11-2009 10:41

I'm in WV and let me tell you there are way more than 22 rigs!!! more like 50-75
Nomac has 10 or more drilling and that just the Chesapke Hole they are also drilling for Atlas

I have worked for UDI,Phoenix,Braden,EC,and Nomac. Just these guys have over 22 rigs in WV.
PA number is also way under

How do they get this count?

Thanks Tom K.

By ssbn727 (*****)

Date 12-11-2009 16:22 Edited 12-11-2009 17:16

I really couldn't tell you because I don't know Tom... I just copied and pasted the article from the Oil and Gas Journal, so if you go back into the link, there may be a way to contact the writer via e-mail, and then you can ask them how they got the figures they published. ;) They probably would like to hear from someone out in the field, because I doubt that they go out there and count the rigs themselves... I believe that the data they get is second hand and rarely authenticated, so they probably shouldn't mind it that much for some validation via someone's own eyes for verification. ;) Here's the link to the Oil & Gas Journal and below that is the link to the article as well:

http://www.ogj.com/index.html

http://www.ogj.com/index/article-display/6377079353/articles/oil-gas-journal/drilling-production-2/drilling-operations/2009/12/us-rig_count_up_slightly.html

Here's another website that you might be interested in as well:

http://drillingcontractor.org/?cat=12

Btw, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to both you and your family Tom K. :) :) :)

Respectfully,
Henry

By low_hydrogen (**)

Date 12-11-2009 18:41

Here's an interesting site also

http://www.roughneckcity.com/Oilfield_Drilling_Map.html

By NMWELDING (**)

Date 12-12-2009 01:04

Sure is a far cry from the 4,100 plus active drilling rigs from the early eighties.

By Tyler1970 (***)

Date 12-12-2009 01:21

they might just have google earth!