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 11, 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	2747	2747	2751	2945
Drilling	960	945	996	1025
Down	1787	1802	1785	1920
Utilization (%)	35%	34%	35%	35%

Canadian Rigs

	This Week	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Total Marketable	549	549	549	604
Drilling	137	137	124	168
Down	412	412	425	436
Utilization (%)	25%	25%	23%	28%

Regional Drilling

	This Week	%	Last Week	Last Month	Last Year
Gulf of Mexico	42	4%	42	42	41
Northeastern US	62	6%	62	64	48
Northern Louisiana/Arkansas	35	4%	33	31	24
Oklahoma	67	7%	67	74	120
Permian Basin	416	43%	408	411	431
Rocky Mountain	130	14%	126	137	125
Southeastern US	3	0.3%	4	6	4
Southern Louisiana	12	1%	12	10	15
Texas 1-4	90	9%	87	95	104
Texas 5,6,9,7B	41	4%	43	39	46
Texas 10, OKLA Panhandle, Kansas	28	3%	28	26	36
West Coast/Alaska	34	4%	33	31	31
Alberta	87	64%	85	83	121
British Columbia	10	7%	9	10	12
Manitoba	4	0.7%	4	4	7
Ontario	0%	1	0	0
Saskatchewan	15	11%	38	27	28

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