Ukraine has regained control of a set of oil drilling platforms located in the Black Sea, Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR) announced on Sept. 11. The rigs had been occupied by Russia since the 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea.
[pdf] The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday. The total rig count in the US rose to 537, according to Baker Hughes, down 45 from this same time last year.
[pdf] It contains averages of rigs running in Louisiana divided into regions: north, south inland land, south inland water, state offshore and OCS. The main source of this data is Baker-Hughes drilling statistic.
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