Crude Oil and Natural Gas Drilling Activity

This dataset contains USA Crude oil and Natural gas drilling activity , geographic coverage is the 50 states and the district of Columbia from 1949-2021. Data from US Energy Information Administration.

Note:

Total rotary rigs in operation is the sum of rigs drilling for crude oil, rigs drilling for natural gas, and other rigs (not shown) drilling for miscellaneous purposes, such as other service wells, injection wells, and stratigraphic tests.

Dataset Identifier

crude-oil-and-natural-gas-drilling-activity

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Themes

Crude Oil & Refined Products, Natural Gas

Keywords

Rig count, Drilling activity, Oil and Gas

License

Public Domain

Language

English

Modified

5 April 2025 03:56

Publisher

US Energy Information Administration

Reference

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_enr_drill_s1_m.htm

Attributions

Data>Exploration & reserves : Crude oil and natural gas drilling activity

Last checked date

5 April 2025

Predecessor

Baker Hughes

Country

United States

ISO region

AMERICAS

Source copyrights

https://www.eia.gov/about/copyrights_reuse.php

Data classification

Public

Discontinued Data

Unit of measure

Numbers

Publisher Periodicity

Monthly

Expected next release

1 October 2023

Territory

World ,

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Last processing

5 April 2025 03:56 (metadata)

5 April 2025 03:56 (data)

DCAT

Issued

1 July 2020

Accrual periodicity

Monthly

Temporal

1973-2021

Granularity

Country

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