A father and son from Lehighton were killed Friday evening when their well-drilling rig tilted on soft ground and touched a high-voltage line at a housing development in northern Carbon County, police ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Minnesota's drought is having various impacts on businesses across the state. Many farmers have been relying on irrigation since early June to get their crops through the dry ...

Repsol S.A. REPYY, a Spanish energy company, has signed an agreement with Dolphin Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor, for the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig. Per the terms of ...

On a drilling rig towering above quiet cattle farms in Southeast Texas, Eric Williams perched inside the cabin of the 16-story machine, twisting a pair of joysticks to guide a gigantic wrench roaring ...

ERIE — Angela Waldrop was cooking Thanksgiving dinner when the rumbling sound from the drill rig just beyond her backyard started. Soon the vibrations were making a plate on her kitchen table dance.

Regulators and the energy industry need to close regulatory gaps that contributed to one of the worst oil drilling accidents in decades, a federal agency warned yesterday in an unprecedented report.

The RED Drilling Rig 202 has arrived at the Kinsau-1A drill site and is rigging up, with the Kinsau-1A well anticipated to begin drilling operations in the coming days. It is projected that the Kinsau ...

The oil giant had moved a Denver-Julesburg Basin rig to Texas's Permian Basin but now finds work enough to keep another crew busy. Colorado regulators delay oil ...

US offshore drilling contractor Noble has secured a three-well deep-water commitment in Mexico for one of its rigs with operators CNOOC Ltd and Petronas. Noble said its drillship Noble Globetrotter I, ...

Aberdeen-based offshore contractor Well-Safe Solutions has increased its plug and abandonment (P&A) specialist fleet with a rig acquired from London-based giant Seadrill. Well-Safe acquired the West ...

A massive drilling rig on wheels shut down the Dalton Highway for much of the weekend as it inched toward an Alaska oil prospect on the North Slope. “It’s the first and probably the last time this ...