The U.S. natural gas rig count went unchanged at 151 during the week ended Friday (June 3) amid minor regional adjustments to domestic upstream activity levels, while the Canadian oil count soared, the latest figures from Baker Hughes Co. (BKR) show.

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Both oil- and natural gas-directed drilling totals were unchanged in the United States for the period. Land drilling was steady at 710, and the Gulf of Mexico count also held flat at 15. The United States ended with a combined 727 active U.S. rigs as of Friday, versus 456 rigs running in the year-earlier period, according to the BKR numbers, which are partly based on data from Enverus.

The Canadian rig count, meanwhile, jumped 14 units higher to end the week at 117, versus 77 in the year-ago period. A net increase of 17 oil-directed...