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The U.S. natural gas rig count rose four units to 162 for the week ended Friday (Sept. 2), while a sharp pullback in the Permian Basin saw the overall U.S. rig count fall five units to 760, according to the latest tally from oilfield services provider Baker Hughes Co. (BKR).
Net changes domestically for the week included a nine-rig decline in oil-directed drilling. The combined 760 active U.S. rigs as of Friday compares with 497 rigs running in the year-earlier period, according to the BKR numbers, which are partly based on data from Enverus.
Domestic land drilling declined by three rigs overall, while the Gulf of Mexico count dropped two units to end at 14. Vertical drilling declined by five units, with directional drilling down one rig. Partially offsetting was a one-rig increase in horizontal drilling for the period.
The Canadian rig count, meanwhile, increased by seven units — all oil-directed — to climb to 208, up from 152 in the year-earlier period.
In terms of changes by drilling region, the Permian posted a six-rig decline week/week, lowering its total to 342. That’s up from 250 at this time last year, the BKR data show.
Elsewhere among plays, two rigs were added in the Williston Basin for the week, along with one rig each in the Ardmore Woodford, Arkoma Woodford, Eagle Ford Shale and Haynesville Shale. The Cana Woodford posted a one-rig decline week/week.
Counting by state, the Texas rig count dropped nine rigs to 362 for the period, versus 232 a year ago. New Mexico and North Dakota each added two rigs to their respective totals.
U.S. crude production ticked up in the week-earlier period, approaching a 2022 high, keeping pace with an increase in demand for travel fuels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its latest release of weekly petroleum data.
Production for the week ended Aug. 26 rose by 100,000 b/d to 12.1 million b/d from the prior week, EIA said in its Weekly Petroleum Status Report. That brought output close to the pandemic-era high of 12.2 million b/d reached earlier in the summer.
After a choppy mid-summer run on the demand front amid lofty gasoline prices, consumption was seen stabilizing in late August and may rise into the early fall, according to analysts at Evercore ISI. Prices at the pump have fallen substantially from record highs earlier this summer – down more than 20% from June 14 to around $3.40/gallon on Wednesday.
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