HOUSTON, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The number of active drilling rigs in the United States stands at 592 this week, down by one from the previous week and by 29 from this time last year, according to the weekly data released by Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes Friday.

These active drilling rigs included 484 oil rigs operating in U.S. oil fields, down by two from the previous week, 103 gas rigs, up by one, and five miscellaneous rigs, the same as the previous week.

The rigs included 575 land drilling rigs, three inland water drilling rigs, and 14 offshore drilling rigs.

Of them, 50 were directional drilling rigs, 529 were horizontal drilling rigs and 13 were vertical drilling rigs.

So far, the Permian Basin in western Texas and eastern New Mexico has been the largest source of shale oil production growth in the United States, having become an engine of supply growth outside the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in the past years. Enditem

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