2024-05-11 22:36:32
The number of active oil and gas drilling rigs in the world decreased in April for the second month in a row, driven by North America.
As Day.Az reports with reference to Interfax, such data was provided by the American oil service company Baker Hughes.
On average, 1,726 installations operated worldwide last month compared to 1,793 in March. At the same time, the April level is 82 lower than the figure for the same month in 2023.
In the United States, the number of installations in April decreased by 8 compared to the previous month and amounted to 617. In Canada, their number fell by 66 to 131.
The number of drilling rigs in the Middle East over the past month decreased by 1 (to 343), in Africa – by 3 (to 112). At the same time, in the Asia-Pacific region their number increased by 8 (to 237), in Europe – by 2 (to 120), in Latin America – by 1 (to 166).
Baker Hughes has been publishing data on active drilling rigs since 1944. At first, the company collected information only in the USA and Canada, and since 1975 – all over the world. Since June 2019, it has included the number of drilling rigs in Ukraine in its calculations, while no recalculation of aggregate data for Europe for previous periods has been carried out in this regard.
The average monthly number of active oil and gas drilling rigs worldwide increased in 2023 for the third year in a row. The figure rose to 1,814, up from 1,747 in 2022.
The historical maximum in the number of operating drilling rigs was noted in 1981 – 5,624 rigs. The minimum number was recorded in 2020 and was 1,352 installations.
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