HOUSTON – Aug. 3, 2025 – In order to clarify the previously reported numbers, Baker Hughes has established that as of today, more than 230 rigs are working across operations in Saudi Arabia. The operations related to drilling rigs, including production testing, non-rotational rigs, completions or workovers rigs, rigs under mobilization, have not historically been reflected in worldwide rig counts.
Baker Hughes has been providing rotary rig counts as a service to the petroleum industry since 1944, when the Baker Hughes Tool Company began weekly counts of U.S. and Canadian drilling activity. In 1975, Baker Hughes initiated the monthly active international rig count.
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