Activity Tracker™ Weekly Rig Count

Identify regional opportunities with accurate North American rig data

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Updated each Friday, the IHS Markit North American Onshore Weekly Rig Count is a weekly survey of the number of drilling rigs for exploration of oil or natural gas in the United States and Canada. Our team of analysts compiles oil rig data daily through direct contact with contractors and operators to derive dependable figures.

November 13, 2020

For a drilling rig to be counted, the rig must be actively marketable and contracted to drill. Contracted rigs can be moving from one location to another, waiting on equipment/weather, rigging up/down, or undergoing maintenance. Rig counts provided by other companies may use data that has been sourced differently or only report on actively operating drilling rigs, resulting in counts that may vary from those reported by IHS Markit.

The information provided and much more data on the North American rig fleet can be sourced via the IHS Markit Proprietary North American rigs information product, Activity Tracker.

For additional information, contact Rig Support.

North American Rigs

United States Rigs

	This Week	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Total Marketable	2512	2512	2511	2744
Drilling	378	373	347	888
Down	2134	2139	2164	1856
Utilization (%)	15%	15%	14%	32%

Canadian Rigs

	This Week	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Total Marketable	505	505	505	548
Drilling	85	79	76	137
Down	420	426	429	411
Utilization (%)	17%	16%	15%	25%

Regional Drilling

	This Week	%	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Gulf of Mexico	24	6%	28	31	38
Northeastern US	36	10%	36	40	55
Northern Louisiana/Arkansas	26	7%	26	24	36
Oklahoma	13	3%	13	14	52
Permian Basin	153	40%	154	140	398
Rocky Mountain	37	10%	37	31	127
Southeastern US	1	0.3%	1	2	2
Southern Louisiana	7	1%	3	6	7
Texas 1-4	33	9%	31	24	84
Texas 5,6,9,7B	23	6%	23	20	36
Texas 10, OKLA Panhandle, Kansas	12	3%	8	6	22
West Coast/Alaska	13	3%	13	9	31
Alberta	53	62%	46	46	93
British Columbia	17	20%	18	16	9
Manitoba	1	1%	0	1	4
Ontario	0	0%	0	0	1
Saskatchewan	14	16%	15	13	30

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