On any other day, David Rodriguez’s truck would have been helping extract oil, and as he sucked mud from a well beneath a ...

The number of active rigs drilling for oil and gas in the U.S. gained 1 to 593, their first gain in three weeks, Baker Hughes said in its latest report.

The Company continues to demonstrate operational excellence, production uptime and enhancement in 2024 to optimize production ...

Indonesia’s national energy company Pertamina has secured the jack-up rig CPOE 16 from Chinese offshore drilling contractor CNPC Petroleum Offshore Engineering (CPOE) on a four-year firm ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for the first time in six weeks ... in spot gas prices in 2025 would prompt producers to boost drilling activity this ...

Brawley Fire responded to the scene and found the trailer of the big rig was on fire and that the driver had been unable to detach it from the tractor. Both westbound lanes of the highway were shut ...

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the number of rigs deployed to drill for natural gas in the United States decreased over the last two years. US natural gas-directed rigs ...

AUSTIN – The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a total of 665 original drilling permits in February 2025. The total includes 563 to drill new oil or gas wells, 11 to re-enter plugged wellbores, 16 ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on British Petroleum’s offshore drilling rig (a machine that drills holes into the earth’s surface to drill oil and construct wells) in the Gulf of ...

PETALING JAYA: Sapura Energy Bhd ’s drilling arm, Sapura Drilling, has secured multiple contracts with a combined value of approximately RM3.2bil. In a statement, the group said Sapura Drilling ...

Drilling is underway now; the wells are to be online in the fourth quarter and into 2026. At press time, it had 13 rigs making hole for it in the Delaware Basin and three frac crews at work. “Our ...

Baker Hughes, which has issued rotary rig counts since 1944, describes the figures as an important business barometer for the drilling industry and its suppliers. The company notes that working ...