Baker Hughes reports U.S. rig count up 5 to 650 rigs
Baker Hughes (BKR) reports that the U.S. rig count is up 5 from last week to 650 with oil rigs up 2 to 522, gas up 3 to 127, and miscellaneous rigs unchanged at 1.
U.S. Rig Count is up 248 rigs from last year’s count of 402 with oil rigs up 213 gas rigs up 35 and miscellaneous unchanged at 1.
The U.S. Offshore Rig Count is unchanged at 12, down 5 year-over-year.
The Canada Rig Count is up 4 from last week to 224, with oil rigs up 3 to 138, gas rigs unchanged at 85 and miscellaneous up 1 to 1.
The Canada Rig Count is up 61 rigs from last year’s count of 163, with oil rigs up 46, gas rigs up 14 and miscellaneous up 1.
Oil Tops Out
WTI Crude oil rallied to above $105 per barrel on news of invasion of Ukraine. In a classical top out price behavior, shares hit a multi-year higher then reversed intraday and closed lower. Today, the decline is continuing as price gap between Brent and WTI is closing. Furthermore FOMC is going to raise interest rates which means a stronger dollar, and lower commodity prices as they are denominated in dollar. OPEC+ is meeting next week to consider production quotas.
The Baker Hughes rig counts are counts of the number of drilling rigs actively exploring for or developing oil or natural gas in the U.S., Canada and international markets.
The Company has issued the rig counts as a service to the petroleum industry since 1944, when Hughes Tool Company began weekly counts of the U.S. and Canadian drilling activity. The monthly international rig count was initiated in 1975.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is down $1.45 to $91.35 per barrel. Brent crude is down $1.54 to $93.85 per barrel. Gasoline last traded at $2.870 per gallon down 5 cents on the day.
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