Glossary
rig count
rig count is periodic tally of active drilling rigs — weekly for North America and monthly internationally in the Baker Hughes Rig Count — broken out by geography, basin, drill-for target and trajectory. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, Baker Hughes Rig Count and Rigzone Data Center are working examples.
What is rig count?
A periodic tally of active drilling rigs — weekly for North America and monthly internationally in the Baker Hughes Rig Count — broken out by geography, basin, drill-for target and trajectory.
Count definitions vary by vendor, and Baker Hughes reports Saudi Arabia on an operating-rigs basis.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - Baker Hughes Rig Count — "weekly North American and monthly international counts of active drilling rigs, broken out by country, state/province, county, basin, drill-for target, trajectory and land/offshore location". - Rigzone Data Center (tagging) — "rig-counts". - Oil & Gas Journal Data & Surveys (tagging) — "rig-counts".
Why does rig count matter when choosing a dataset?
A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and Baker Hughes Rig Count lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate rig count in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open Baker Hughes Rig Count and confirm its record — "weekly North American and monthly international counts of active drilling rigs, broken out by country, state/province, county, basin, drill-for target, trajectory and land/offshore location" — against the files you actually receive. 2. Read Rigzone Data Center's record on tagging — "rig-counts" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything. 3. Read Oil & Gas Journal Data & Surveys's record on tagging — "rig-counts" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything. 4. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is. 5. Check whether definitions are verified at all.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - drilling permits - production by well - wellbore
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of rig count?
Baker Hughes Rig Count is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "weekly North American and monthly international counts of active drilling rigs, broken out by country, state/province, county, basin, drill-for target, trajectory and land/offshore location". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "rig count" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides rig count?
Open Baker Hughes Rig Count next to Rigzone Data Center and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
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