Drilling activity picked up slightly this week in South Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale and in Oklahoma while the nation’s overall rig count stayed relatively flat. The number of rigs drilling for crude oil ...

Texas Tech leaders hope to strike black gold - and give petroleum engineering students some literal in-the-field experience at the same time. The university made history on Friday by raising the ...

The nation's total of active oil and gas drilling rigs fell by eight this week, according the Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes. The decline was led by Alaska, which lost four land rigs.

Abstract: Helmerich & Payne IDC will have built 47 new state-of-the-art land rigs when its FlexRig construction program ends this summer. Analysis: The best exposition of onshore drilling technology ...

Reporting from Port Fourchon, La. — As the odds of survival for 11 missing workers diminished Thursday, officials warned that the dramatic explosion and fire that sank an oil rig off the Louisiana ...