Trey Cowan senior industry analyst, Platts RigData, a forecasting unit of S&P Global Platts.
"To this end, Platts RigData expects more than 11,000 U.S. oil & gas wells to be drilled during 2017. That would be an improvement of 25% year over year versus our 8,900 well spud estimate for 2016."
The worldwide rig count for August 2016 was 1,547, up 66 from the 1,481 counted in July 2016