Among US states, top producer Texas added two rigs to 281, while the tally fell by three in Louisiana. Across North America, oil and gas rigs were unchanged at 784 from a week earlier and were ...

I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how ...

U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the first time in eight weeks, energy services firm Baker ...

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has issued five-year extensions for permits for a Louisiana company to operate a wildcat oil rig along the environmentally fragile Apalachicola ...

The ban doesn’t apply to federal waters off the Louisiana coast, but state Attorney General Liz Murrill is challenging the action she calls “blatantly illegal.” ...

And in Louisiana, drillers cut one rig, bringing the total down to 29, the lowest since August 2020. The oil and gas rig count declined by about 5% in 2024 and 20% in 2023 as lower U.S. oil and ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught ... The other workers on the rig, off Louisiana, were evacuated to the US. The rig had been burning for 36 hours when it sank despite efforts to ...

The overall drilling rig count in North America is up 9 units during the week ended Jan. 17, with Canada’s double-digit ...

The number of active U.S. oil and gas drilling rigs fell for the second consecutive week, amidst a decline in US crude oil ...

A Louisiana island that provides critical ... effectively ending litigation stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and subsequent oil spill. Former BP executive David Rainey ...