{"id":435202,"date":"2026-08-01T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/u-s-rig-count-edges-higher-435202\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:35:32","slug":"u-s-rig-count-edges-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/u-s-rig-count-edges-higher-435202\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rig Count Edges Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">The U.S. rig count was little changed this week, with the total number of active rigs rising by 1 to 588. Oil rigs increased by 1, while natural gas and miscellaneous rigs were unchanged. Compared with a year ago, the total rig count is 48 rigs higher, led by a **41-rig increase in oil drilling.<\/p>\n<p>Key takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nTotal U.S. rig count: 588 (+1 vs. last week; +48 vs. a year ago)\n<\/li>\n<li>\nOil rigs: 451 (+1 w\/w; +41 y\/y)\n<\/li>\n<li>\nGas rigs: 127 (unchanged w\/w; +3 y\/y)\n<\/li>\n<li>\nMiscellaneous rigs: 10 (unchanged w\/w; +4 y\/y)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. rig count was little changed this week, with the total number of active rigs rising by 1 to 588. Oil rigs increased by 1, while natural gas and miscellaneous rigs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}