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.

October 12, 2018

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	2945	2945	2951	2966
Drilling	1025	1058	1042	1001
Down	1920	1887	1909	1965
Utilization (%)	35%	36%	35%	34%

Canadian Rigs

	This Week	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Total Marketable	604	605	611	635
Drilling	168	189	203	193
Down	436	416	408	442
Utilization (%)	28%	31%	33%	30%

Regional Drilling

	This Week	%	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Gulf of Mexico	41	4%	41	42	43
Northeastern US	48	5%	50	43	68
Northern Louisiana/Arkansas	24	2%	23	23	32
Oklahoma	120	12%	122	121	124
Permian Basin	431	42%	451	446	394
Rocky Mountain	125	12%	125	125	132
Southeastern US	4	0.4%	5	5	5
Southern Louisiana	15	1%	11	16	6
Texas 1-4	104	10%	110	102	96
Texas 5,6,9,7B	46	4%	45	46	38
Texas 10, OKLA Panhandle, Kansas	36	4%	39	40	34
West Coast/Alaska	31	3%	36	31	29
Alberta	121	72%	129	140	138
British Columbia	12	7%	14	13	24
Manitoba	7	4%	7	3	1
Ontario	0	0.0%	0	0	0
Saskatchewan	28	17%	39	47	30

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