Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry Weekly US rotary rig count up by 8 to 448 Kristen Nelson Petroleum News The Baker Hughes U.S. rotary drilling rig count, 448 on May 7, was up by eight from 440 the previous week and up by 74 from a count of 374 a year ago. When the count bottomed out at 244 in mid-August last year, it was not just the low for 2020, but the lowest the count has been since the Houston ba.... [additional news subjects in this story] Alaska unchanged from previous week International count down