Western Canada’s fleet of drilling rigs went down 54 rigs to the current count of 219 actively drilling rigs according to data collected by Baker Hughes for the week of March 16th.
From one week ago, Alberta rig counts decreased from 187 to 157, the Saskatchewan rig count decreased from 57 to 35.
Oil drilling went from 196 to 144; gas rigs went down from 77 to 75.