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The US drilling rig count dropped 9 units to 431 during the week ended Apr. 22, the 18th-straight week in which the count has fallen, according to Baker Hughes Inc. data. Last week’s 3-unit loss was the smallest of the year thus far.

The overall US drilling rig count shed 3 units—all targeting oil—during the week ended Apr. 15 to settle at 440 rigs working, representing its smallest decline of the year thus far, according to data compiled by Baker Hughes Inc.

Anchored by the idling of more oil-directed rigs, the overall US drilling rig count lost 7 units to 443 during the week ended Apr. 8, according to Baker Hughes Inc. data.

One week after hitting an all-time low in recorded data, the overall US drilling rig count posted its smallest decline of the year thus far, reflecting the first rise in oil-directed rigs in 12 weeks.

TransCanada Corp., Calgary, has agreed to acquire Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. of Houston for $13 billion, including the assumption of $2.8 billion of debt.

The overall weekly US rig count is now at its lowest point in Baker Hughes Inc. data that begins in the 1940s, and perhaps since the infancy of US oil and gas industry in the mid-19th century.

One year after the US shale oil production began its decline, output form the Permian basin is finally projected to follow suit.

The US rig count dropped 12 units to 502 during the week ended Feb. 26, according to Baker Hughes Inc. data. While the decline is the smallest thus far this year, it represents the eighth straight weekly double-digit drop to begin 2016.

Antero Resources Corp., Denver, reported that it will further shift activity to the Marcellus from the Utica in 2016 due to “firm transportation constraints” in the Ohio shale play.

Sunoco Logistics Partners LP, Philadelphia, has let a construction management contract to Fluor Corp., Irving, Tex., for the Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline project.