Permian Basin reported an additional active drilling rig for the second time in three weeks in Baker Hughes’ weekly count as of Oct. 31.  Permian now has 251 rigs (up 1 in the past week but down 52 or 17.2 percent from 303 a year ago).

Also as of Oct. 31, there were 235 rigs in Texas (down 1 in the past week and down 46 or 16.4 percent from 281 in the past year), 103 in New Mexico (up 1 in the past week, up 3 in the past year) and 546 in U.S. (down 4 in past week, down 39 or 6.7 percent from 585 in past year).

Eagle Ford in south Texas reported 43 active rigs for the second straight week, and Haynesville in east Texas and Louisiana is third among regions with 40 (down 1 in past week) ahead of Williston with 30 (unchanged) and Marcellus with 23 (unchanged).  Third among states was Oklahoma with 42 (unchanged) followed by Louisiana with 41 (up 1) and North Dakota with 29 (up 1).

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