Amid some minor adjustments to drilling totals at the regional level, including a small downtick in the Haynesville Shale, the overall U.S. rig count finished the week ended Friday (June 3) unchanged at 727, according to the latest tally from Baker Hughes Co. (BKR).

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Both oil- and natural gas-directed drilling totals were unchanged domestically for the period. Land drilling was steady at 710, and the Gulf of Mexico count also held flat at 15. The combined 727 active U.S. rigs as of Friday compares with 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 units there...