Forbes used the Enverus Daily Rig Count as one example: On Sept. 1, 2020, that metric showed the number of active drilling rigs in the United States was near its all-time low of roughly two hundred eighty—but today, that figure has surged to four hundred sixty active and working rigs. That represents a whopping 67 percent increase in only half a year.
Moreover, the Primary Vision count of active U.S. frac spreads had recovered to one hundred seventy-five as of Feb. 12, more than doubling the eighty-five seen on August 28 last year. However, that plummeted to forty-one active spreads during the mid-February arctic freeze of Texas, Oklahoma, and other shale states. By Feb. 26, it bounced back up to 140.