US oil, gas rig count jumps 16 to 716 as Permian sees biggest weekly gain: Enverus

摘要

The US oil and gas rig count jumped 16 to 716, energy analytics andsoftware company Enverus said Dec. 16, with the Permian by farrecording the biggest weekly domestic gain.The week's total rig count is the highest the total rig count hasbeen since the first week of April 2020, when upstream producerswere cutting their budgets and pulling rigs from domestic fields inresponse to low oil demand and plunging oil prices as the coronaviruspandemic raced around the globe.