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U.S. Oil, Gas Rig Count Creeps Up With Strong Prices

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 18th September 2026 Global

What the source reported

Source-reported

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US rising to 595, up 53 from this same time last year. The number of active oil rigs rose by 2, reaching 452 during the latest reporting period, according to the data. This is 34 above this same time last year. The number of gas rigs also rose by 2 to 134, which is 16 more than this time last year. Miscellaneous rigs stayed the same at 9. The latest EIA data showed…

Publication
Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
18th September 2026
Original report
oilprice.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
Global
Organisations
None identified
Collected
18th September 2026 · 21:00

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (17.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (25.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity