Activity Tracker™ Weekly Rig Count

Identify regional opportunities with accurate North American rig data

Is your rig count accurate?

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.

June 14, 2019

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	2746	2746	2788	2930
Drilling	1052	1067	1022	1027
Down	1694	1679	1766	1903
Utilization (%)	38%	39%	37%	35%

Canadian Rigs

	This Week	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Total Marketable	548	549	550	621
Drilling	106	91	70	135
Down	442	458	480	486
Utilization (%)	19%	17%	13%	22%

Regional Drilling

	This Week	%	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Gulf of Mexico	47	4%	47	46	44
Northeastern US	73	7%	73	56	54
Northern Louisiana/Arkansas	36	3%	36	28	25
Oklahoma	99	9%	102	93	116
Permian Basin	442	42%	448	440	429
Rocky Mountain	138	13%	143	131	114
Southeastern US	7	0.7%	7	8	4
Southern Louisiana	17	2%	17	13	9
Texas 1-4	108	10%	104	106	112
Texas 5,6,9,7B	44	4%	46	48	52
Texas 10, OKLA Panhandle, Kansas	17	2%	20	29	35
West Coast/Alaska	24	2%	24	24	33
Alberta	59	56%	60	47	89
British Columbia	10	9%	11	15	17
Manitoba	2	0.4%	2	0	2
Ontario	1	1%	1	1	1
Saskatchewan	34	32%	31	7	26

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