According to foreign news on October 13, energy services company Baker Hughes Co. said in its closely watched report on Friday that the number of oil and natural gas rigs drilled by U.S. energy companies this week increased by the most since March. It was the largest since then and was the first increase in four weeks.
Data show that the number of oil and natural gas rigs, a leading indicator of future production, increased by three to 622 in the week ended October 13. However, compared with the same period last year, the total number of drilling rigs still decreased by 147, a decrease of 19%.
This week, the number of U.S. oil rigs increased by 5 to 501. The number of natural gas drilling rigs decreased by one to 117.
U.S. crude oil futures are up about 8% so far this year, and will rise about 7% in 2022. Meanwhile, U.S. natural gas futures prices have fallen about 28% so far this year, after rising about 20% last year.
Exxon Mobil agreed to buy U.S. rival Pioneer in an all-stock deal worth $59.5 billion that would make it the largest producer in the Permian Basin.
If ExxonMobil wants to increase production in the Permian, it may have to build on the roughly 37 sites currently operated by the merged Exxon-Pioneer, analysts at energy consultancy Tudor Pickering Holt & Co said. increased on the drilling platform. But analysts at East Daley Analytics noted that so far, the recent consolidation trend "is slowing drilling activity in the Permian Basin."
U.S. drilling companies have reduced the number of active oil and gas rigs this year, but data show that U.S. crude oil output hit a record high of 13.2 million barrels per day last week.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a monthly report on Wednesday that U.S. crude oil production will increase by 1.01 million barrels per day in 2023 to 12.92 million barrels per day, and will increase by 200,000 barrels per day in 2024 to 1,312 million barrels per day. Thousands of barrels. The report also stated that U.S. natural gas production is expected to be 103.72 billion cubic feet per day in 2023 and 105.13 billion cubic feet per day in 2024.
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