Top-paid oil rig operaters earn more than $89K. June 16, 2010 — -- The oil industry may be a magnet for controversy in the U.S. right now, with crude continuing to gush from BP's ruined deep ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA) – Despite receiving a warning that something was wrong, operators of an offshore oil rig appeared to wait more than three hours before shutting off a pipeline that leaked tens ...

Three of the largest drilling rig operators in Texas are making budget cuts and bracing for the worst as a global glut of crude oil and falling demand due to the coronavirus pandemic are expected to ...

The operator of a 100,000-pound drilling rig was seriously injured after the machine tipped over outside Southwest Portland’s Oregon Health & Science University on Friday morning, pinning the worker ...

It took rescuers about 15 minutes to remove the operator from the rig, according to a Portland Fire & Rescue spokesperson. The operator was transported to a trauma center, where he remains in critical ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Jacobsen Construction Company said the operator injured in a drill rig collapse Tuesday night is recovering in good condition. Spokesperson Amy Christensen said he has a small ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A 100,000 pound drill rig tipped over and pinned the heavy equipment operator inside near the Oregon Health and Science University campus in Southwest Portland Friday morning.

Evidence of the economic devastation in the U.S. oil patch continued to grow Friday as a large drilling rig operator posted a multimillion-dollar loss and the number of operating rigs hit a historic ...

Major US operators have hinted that they could soon add rigs back to their fleet and once again look to increase production as service costs drop and oil prices stabilise, writes Noah Brenner.

US onshore drillers increased their run of weeks without a drop in the rig count to 18 as rigs leased by operators targeting natural gas once again led the gains. 4 November 2016 1:00 GMT Updated 4 ...

Operators will increase worldwide investment by at least 6% in 2005 and compete for the dwindling supply of rigs. At the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) conference in Berlin, May ...