China was reportedly building oil and gas rigs inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone, in what analysts claimed was part of a campaign to slowly chip away at the island’s defences and expand ...

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 ...

Around the world, thousands of offshore oil and gas platforms are reaching the end of their operational life. The International Energy Agency estimates that more than 12,000 exist globally – with more ...

North America dropped four rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was released on August 22. The U.S. cut one rig and Canada cut three rigs week on ...

When you think about offshore oil rigs, what comes to mind is what you may have seen in movies — skeletal towers in the middle of a vast sea, some flares cutting through the darkness, and a crew that ...

The number of oil and gas drilling rigs in the U.S. gained 2 to 550, Baker Hughes reported Friday, as rigs targeting crude oil remained rose by 2 to 420, gas rigs stayed flat at 121, and 9 rigs were ...

US oil and gas drilling rig activity increased this week with the addition of 7 rigs, bringing the total working rigs to 549. This week’s count, however, is down 38 rigs from the comparable period a ...

North America added six rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was published on November 7. The total U.S. rig count increased by two week on week ...