Total US Rig Count Decreases: The count of rigs engaged in the exploration and production of oil ... new drilling technology with the ability to drill and extract gas from dense rock formations ...

In a quiet suburb of this oil town, there is a spacious brick house ... as anyone about what happened on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig the day it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.

Total U.S. Rig Count Increases: The count of rigs engaged in exploration and production of oil ... new drilling technology with the ability to drill and extract gas from dense rock formations ...

US crude oil production likely will fall over the next 18 months as producers cut back on drilling activity in response to ...

The crash in oil prices has taken its toll. The number of rigs drilling for oil and ... the deployment of horizontal drilling through shale rock. The three biggest oil-producing shale regions ...

In its monthly Short Term Energy Outlook, the EIA said it expects U.S. crude- oil output will slip to 13.3 million barrels a day in the fourth quarter of 2026 from a record 13.5 million barrels a day ...

The first offshore oil well completely out of sight of land was drilled in 1947, 17 km off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. The platform of the drilling rig was no larger than a tennis ...

Good help can be hard to find in the oil ... from the rig floor—a platform about thirty feet off the ground where roughnecks thread pipe segments together as the drill bit devours rock far ...

Spud refers to the early stages of drilling when rock, dirt, and other sedimentary ... in" and occurs on the "spud date." With offshore oil rigs, the spud date is when the drill begins working ...