Did you know that after the completion of the construction of one of the tallest buildings in the world - the Empire State Building - many people were afraid to get close to it? They believed that a ...

Construction is making steady progress in Napavine as crews put the roof on Lewis County Fire District 5's new apparatus bay earlier this week. The fire district that calls Napavine home broke ground ...

Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corp said on Thursday its struggling offshore and marine (O&M) segment will exit the rig-building business and shift its focus to infrastructure projects, including ...

North America added eight rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was released on September 26. The U.S. added seven rigs and Canada added one rig ...

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 ...

HERE ON THE KCRA THREE NEWS AT NOON AND ONLINE RIGHT NOW. A BIG RIG THAT OVERTURNED ON I-80 IN PLACER COUNTY HAS BEEN CLEARED FROM THE HIGHWAY. THIS HAPPENED JUST ABOUT 350 THIS MORNING IN THE ...

North American drilling activity posted an increase for the week ended Sept. 19, with 542 rotary rigs working in the US and another 189 in Canada, Baker Hughes officials reported Friday. The rig count ...

A study of migratory hoverflies on a North Sea oil rig has revealed their vital role as long-distance pollen transporters. Researchers studied 121 marmalade hoverflies that landed on an oil rig in the ...

A solo big rig crash on westbound Interstate 80 near Colfax in Northern California brought traffic to a standstill on Tuesday evening, officials said. The crash, which occurred just before 5 p.m. near ...

A section of Interstate 80 has reopened after being closed for hours due to a big rig on fire near Penryn in Placer County, Caltrans said. The California Highway Patrol was dispatched around 1:12 p.m.

A police K-9 helped lead officers to roughly 1,000 pounds of cocaine concealed inside a big rig following a traffic stop on the 15 Freeway in Barstow over the weekend, authorities said. The driver, an ...

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has revoked the operating licence of Oritsemeyin Rig and directed it to cease all operations upon the completion of its current well ...