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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.
Feb. 9—The rig count in the Permian Basin was up two this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 313 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 352 rigs were active in the region.
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Nabors Industries Limited is an American global oil and gas drilling contractor that has operated since 1972. Based in Houston, Texas, Nabors operates the world’s largest land drilling rig fleet, with around 500 rigs operating in over 25 countries – in almost every significant O&G basin on the planet. It also has the largest number of high ...
Dec. 8—The rig count in the Permian Basin was down one this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 313 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 350 rigs were active in the region.
Nationally, the oil and gas rig count is up four from last week at 622 rigs. A year ago, 784 rigs were active. The count shows that 500 rigs sought oil, unchanged from the previous week, and 117
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.
Offshore drilling began in California in 1896, when operators in the Summerland Oil Field in Santa Barbara County followed the field into the ocean by drilling from piers built out over the ocean. Leasing California state seabed is controlled by the State Lands Commission, which halted further leasing of state offshore tracts after the Santa ...