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A new Chinese built oil rig, the massive Scarabeo 9, is slowly making its way toward Cuba with arrival expected in December. Owned and operated by Italian oil company ENI, it will be used to drill ...
I don’t know if the oil rigs off the Santa Barbara coast today have saved any endangered species, but I do know that the wind and solar farms of the California desert are killing and threatening ...
Recent California oil spills—like the 25,000 gallons that leaked from a broken pipeline connected to a rig—have left many environmental groups wary of any oil infrastructure, regardless of ...
U.S. shale producers have added extra drilling rigs much more slowly than during the recoveries that followed the last two oil price slumps, limiting output and helping push local prices to their ...
U.S. exploration and production companies have hired an extra 400 rigs to target oil-bearing formations since the end of May 2016, according to oilfield services company Baker Hughes.
Oil-Column News: Amerisur Resources Hits Oil At Indico Well In Colombia, ... Well 25/8-18 S, drilled by the rig Transocean Leader, proved an oil column of 25 m in the Heimdal Formation.
The company has built upon 15-year-old MIT technology. Startup makes seismic breakthrough that could change the way we drill for energy: 'It's mind-boggling' first appeared on The Cool Down.
Oil rigs around the world are habitats for marine species. ... Love and his colleagues wanted to know if the contamination from cuttings extended to the water column around the shell mound.
No wonder so many Americans have come to dislike politics and despise political news media. Even to a relatively cynical observer like me, there was something uniquely dispiriting about the ...
An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing.
At the same point after the two previous slumps in 2014-2016 and 2008-2009, they had added 443 rigs (6.8 per week) and 486 rigs (7.5 per week). U.S. oil production has recovered to an estimated 11 ...