Is AB’s O&G industry really recovering fast?
Last week, the Alberta government updated their Economic Dashboard with active drilling rigs data for April 2022.
Jason Kenney, Alberta’s premier, seemed to get pretty excited about this data, tweeting out that the number of active drilling rigs increased 126.2% in April 2022 over April 2021.
He’s right in that drilling rigs did increase from 42 in April 2021 to 95 last month, but there are some details he’s leaving out.
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