Offshore oil rigs have made it possible to collect oil and natural gas from below the ocean's floor, appearing as massive megastructures in the middle of open water. Given their sheer size and ...

The total U.S. rig count is made up of 483 oil rigs, 99 gas rigs, and five miscellaneous rigs, according to Baker Hughes’ count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 527 horizontal rigs ...

The U.S. added two oil rigs and one natural gas rig in the week ending Friday. The increased rig count could signal that the market was not as shocked as some had feared by oil prices briefly ...

(Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut oil rigs by the most in a week since June 2023, lowering the total oil and natural gas rig count for a third consecutive week, energy services firm ...

The number of active rigs drilling for oil and gas in the U.S. fell for a second consecutive week, shedding 2 to 590, Baker Hughes said Friday in its latest report. The decline reduces the total ...

The total U.S. rig count is made up of 484 oil rigs, 103 gas rigs, and five miscellaneous rigs, according to the count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 529 horizontal rigs ...

Here, the ferries that shuttle workers to oil rigs in the nearby Gulf of Mexico periodically halt service due to nonpayment. The Hotel Llirre, which exclusively houses oil workers, sits mostly empty.

March 28 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for the first time in three weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes (BKR.O), opens new tab ...

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission says the country’s oil rig count has risen to 32. The NUPRC Chief Executive, Gbenga Komolafe, announced this during his recent appearance ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell again this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Wednesday, after falling in the week prior.

But the oil wasn’t coming from a leak or some other failure of the rig. Milton Love, a biologist at the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, explained that it ...

Massive, offshore rigs the size of skyscrapers remain at sea around the world. Here's why these environmentalists say some should be left alone. An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of ...