{"id":56199,"date":"2021-12-04T02:03:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=56199"},"modified":"2021-12-04T02:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:13:50","slug":"us-oil-rig-count-flat-in-latest-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/us-oil-rig-count-flat-in-latest-week\/12\/04\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"US Oil-Rig Count Flat in Latest Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The number of rigs drilling for oil in the US. was unchanged in the latest week at 467, according to oil-field services company Baker Hughes Co. The rig count was 221 rigs higher than last year when there were 246 active rigs, Baker Hughes said Friday.<br><br>The nation&#8217;s gas-rig count stood at 102, flat in the latest week. It was up by 27 compared with the same week last year. The US offshore-rig count was 13 this week, decreasing by two from last week and was unchanged from last year<br><br>The US oil-rig count is viewed as a proxy for activity in the sector. The metric last peaked at 1,609 in October 2014. Global oil benchmark Brent crude was up about $70 a barrel Friday. West Texas Intermediate crude, the US. benchmark, rose to around $67 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of rigs drilling for oil in the US. was unchanged in the latest week at 467, according to oil-field services company Baker Hughes Co. The rig count was 221 rigs higher than last year when there were 246 active rigs, Baker Hughes said Friday.The nation&#8217;s gas-rig count stood at 102, flat in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":52825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,36],"tags":[7804,7926,6936],"class_list":["post-56199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-commodities-news","category-market-updates","tag-baker-hughes","tag-oil-and-gas-rig-count","tag-oil-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56203,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56199\/revisions\/56203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}