Baker Hughes on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil rose for the first time in four weeks, by 6 to 750 this week. The total active U.S. rig count, which includes oil and natural-gas rigs, also climbed by 5 to 940, according to Baker Hughes. November West Texas Intermediate crude was up 7 cents, or 0.1%, from Thursday at $51.63 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, little changed from the level it traded at before the data.
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