In February 1982, the Ocean Ranger, the world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig, faced one of the most violent North ...

US President Donald Trump promised to ‘drill, baby, drill’. After a year in office, the US oil rig count is steadily ...

“As we have repeatedly seen in California and other parts of the country, offshore drilling is a ticking time bomb,” they continued. “Any expansion of offshore drilling in the waters off the coast of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) The world s biggest floating oil rig sank in the South Atlantic on Tuesday, and the state oil company Petrobras said some of the 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel on board had ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday. The total rig count in the US rose this week ...

In the US, 548 rigs were working, down 1 unit from the prior week. With 192 rigs running in Canada, 1 additional rig was ...

North America dropped seven rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was released on August 1. The U.S. dropped two rigs week on week and Canada cut ...

HOUSTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. oil industry has laid off thousands of workers and cut billions in spending due to lower oil prices and the biggest consolidation in a generation, in what could ...