{"id":98000,"date":"2016-04-01T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98000"},"modified":"2016-04-01T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:39:46","slug":"national-oil-rig-count-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98000","title":{"rendered":"National oil rig count declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56851\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"oil prices drop1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. dropped 14 this week to 450, another all-time low amid continuing energy industry price woes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A year ago, 1,028 rigs were active.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday 362 rigs sought oil and 88 explored for natural gas.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among major oil- and gas-producing states, Texas lost five rigs and Oklahoma four.\u00a0 California, North Dakota and Oklahoma each dropped two while Alaska, Kansas and Pennsylvania declined by one apiece.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Mexico gained two rigs and Utah was up one.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, West Virginia and Wyoming were unchanged.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The U.S. rig count peaked at 4,530 in 1981.\u00a0 The previous low of 488 set in 1999 was eclipsed March 11, and has continued to dip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. dropped 14 this week to 450, another all-time low amid continuing energy industry price woes. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A year ago, 1,028 rigs were active. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98001,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98000\/revisions\/98001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}