A massive oil drilling rig that was set to explore Alaska's North Slope this winter will instead be dismantled and sent to be recycled after it crashed onto snow-covered tundra last month, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 26—A massive oil rig that toppled on the tundra near the North Slope village of Nuiqsut on Friday remained too unstable for ...

Parker Drilling was awarded new contracts for three land rigs to subsidiaries operating in Mexico and Kazakhstan. Parker Drilling was awarded new contracts for three land rigs to subsidiaries ...

Later today, oil services and technology company Baker Hughes will release its U.S. rig count, which is the tally of active oil rigs in the country. Since the spring, rig count has declined, reaching ...

Julianne Geiger is a veteran editor, writer and researcher for Oilprice.com, and a member of the Creative Professionals Networking Group. The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in ...

The number of drilling rigs working in the US and Canada fell by 13 the week ended Dec. 19, according to Baker Hughes. In the US, 542 rigs were working, down 6 units from a week ago. The count is 47 ...

North America dropped six rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes' latest North America rotary rig count.