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Feb. 23—The rig count in the Permian Basin was up two this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 314 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 353 rigs were active in the region.
May 10—The rig count in the Permian Basin was down two this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 314 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 353 rigs were active in the region.
Aug. 23—The rig count in the Permian Basin was up three this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 306 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 320 rigs were active in the region.
Oil reserves in the Permian Basin were first documented by W.H Abrams in Mitchell County, West Texas in 1920. The first commercial well was opened a year later in 1921, in the newly discovered Westbrook Oil Field in Mitchell County, at a depth of 2,498 feet (761 m). Initially, the Permian Basin was thought to have a bowl-like shape, with ...
Dec. 1—The rig count in the Permian Basin was up three this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 314 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 350 rigs were active in the region.
Nationally, the oil and gas rig count is down one from last week at 584 rigs. A year ago, 675 rigs were active. The count shows that 478 rigs sought oil, down one from the previous week, and 100
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
Aug. 9—The rig count in the Permian Basin was up one this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 304 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 327 rigs were active in the region.