Highlights Eagle Ford Shale gains 5 rigs to 48 SCOOP-STACK sees most rigs since April 2020 Permian loses 2 rigs; 4 major plays unchanged The US oil and gas rig count rose by six on the week to 629, Enverus said Sept. 9, with the biggest change in the growing Eagle Ford Shale play. The Eagle Ford of South Texas gained five rigs on the week to 48, marking the highest level in the basin since early April 2020, when counts were plummeting as the pandemic’s initial impacts to oil prices and demand deepened. The Eagle Ford had 80 rigs in late February 2020 before totals fell to 58 by early April that year. Operators reined in spending and called a halt to most new activity in response to oil prices that dipped from the $50s/b to […]