The US drilling rig count jumped 30 units to reach a total of 1,861 rigs working during the week ended Apr. 25, Baker Hughes Inc. reported. The US now has 107 more rigs working compared with this week a year ago. Land-based rigs accounted for most of the gain, collecting 28 units to 1,793. The other 2 were offshore rigs, which now total 54. Rigs drilling in inland waters, at 14, were unchanged from a week ago. Oil rigs were up 24 units to 1,534; gas rigs, meanwhile, increased 7 units to 323. Rigs considered unclassified dropped 1 unit to settle at 4. Horizontal drilling rigs shot up 21 units to 1,245. Directional drilling rigs rose 2 units to 218. Canada’s rig count took a 31-unit hit, leaving that country’s total at 168—still 46 more than this week a year ago. The total was almost evenly split between oil […]