US oil explorers, facing crude near $50 a barrel, idled rigs for the 10th straight week, extending an unprecedented retreat in drilling and dragging the nation’s total rig count down to the lowest level in almost five years.
Rigs targeting oil in the US dropped by 84 to 1,056, the least since Aug
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