OIL and GAS JOURNAL RIG COUNTS -  REPORTED BY BAKER HUGHES
		LOUISIANA'S					LA	U S   T O T A L					Total
	NORTH	SOUTH  INLAND		STATE	TOTAL	LA FED.	TOTAL	ALL	Gulf of	Offsh.	Drill. for	Drill. for	Offshore
		WATER	LAND	OFFSH.	STATE	OFFSH.		U S   TOTAL	Mexico	Total	Oil	Gas	LA	TX
Comparison latest week against January 30, 2004 (last week 2004)
13-Nov-09	200%	8%	-43%	-80%	78%	-57%	11%	2%	-63%	-61%	84%	-22%	-59%	-80%
Comparison latest week against January 2, 2004 (first week 2004)
13-Nov-09	209%	-28%	-46%	0%	73%	-60%	5%	-2%	-65%	-64%	65%	-25%	-60%	-84%
Comparison latest week against January 5, 2007 (first week 2007)
13-Nov-09	100%	-35%	-68%	-67%	14%	-52%	-10%	-35%	-57%	-56%	-6%	-48%	-54%	-73%
Comparison latest week against January 4, 2008 (first week 2008)
13-Nov-09	89.5%	-51.9%	-53.6%	-66.7%	17.4%	-30.4%	3.1%	-37.9%	-42.6%	-41.3%	-17.4%	-49.8%	-34.7%	-75.0%
Comparison latest week to Previous Year (same week of the year)										14-Nov-08
13-Nov-09	27%	-38%	-38%	-50%	5%	-35%	-7%	-43%	-43%	-42%	-39%	-51%	-37%	-63%
Comparison latest week to Previous Week										6-Nov-09
13-Nov-09	-3%	0%	0%	0%	-2%	0%	-2%	2%	0%	6%	-21%	-1%	0%	0%
Area rig statistic weekly changes since 1st week of preceding 6th month:										22-May-09
1st w dat	75	6	12	2	95	46	141	900	53	54	180	711	48	2
Max Chan	36	7	6	0	43	1	28	201	1	1	152	23	1	2
Min Chan	-3	-2	-2	-2	-7	-23	-15	-24	-24	-24	-1	-46	-24	-1
Ave Chan	16	2	1	-1	18	-15	3	79	-17	-17	85	-11	-16	1
Ave % Ch in 6 mon.	21.3%	33.3%	9.0%	-50%	19.0%	-32.2%	2.3%	8.8%	-32.3%	-31.6%	47.3%	-1.6%	-33.1%	30.0%
Control	0	0	0	1		1
* Data were not available on the weekly basis prior to 1992 for state offshore.
The US total split between oil and gas rigs were not available on the weekly basis prior to 1987.
Historical Since 1949
1981	58	83	160	85	386	69	455	3,970	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Annual avg.
	All weekly data set				All weekly data set					All weekly data set
									Since	Since
	Since 1984			Since 1992*			Since 1984		1994*	1990*	Since 1987*
Week High	111	66	122	50	146	128	368	2,787	176	181	764	1,606	161	33
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
# times	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1
Week Low	4	4	10	0	43	9	74	416	29	30	98	242	27	1
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
# times	5	2	3	14	1	2	2	1	2	1	1	2	3	3
	Historical weekly drilling rigs max (high) and min (low) since January 2, 1992
Week High	111	34	62	50	146	128	235	2,031	176	181	465	1,606	140	33
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
# times	1	1	5	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1
Week Low	4	4	10	0	43	9	74	416	29	30	98	242	27	1
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
# times	3	2	3	14	1	2	2	1	2	1	1	2	3	3
	If control lines (red) entry = 1 indicates that the weekly high or low need to change from it to the present week
Oct-09	106	11	13	1	131	29	160	1,009
	Historical monthly drilling rigs max (high) and min (low) since January 1984
Month High	106	61	115	119	307	121	358	2,700	167	173	426	1,585	150	31
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Month Low	5	5	11	0	47	12	76	496	45	46	108	371	30	1
	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1
	If control lines (red) entry = 1 indicates that the monthly high or low need to change from it to the present month.