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  • Oil Rig Counts Increase {This Week in Petroleum}

    03/20/2010 6:53:04 AM PDT · by thackney · 3 replies · 340+ views
    Energy Information Administration ^ | March 17, 2010 | Energy Information Administration
    Oil Rig Counts Increase Baker Hughes reported that the number of rigs drilling for oil in the United States has recovered since the low levels seen in June 2009. The rig count surpassed its previous post-1993 peak of November 2008 on February 1, 2010 (see Figure) and was 5 percent (24 rigs) higher as of March 12. Half of the overall increase in rig counts since June 2009 has been in the Permian Basin of West Texas, where rigs drill primarily conventional vertical wells. Just under one-fifth of the increase has occurred in the Williston Basin, straddling Montana and North...
  • 'Rig Row' in Pascagoula is home to drilling towers idled by moratorium

    08/13/2010 7:31:37 AM PDT · by TornadoAlley3 · 15 replies · 1+ views
    nola.com ^ | 08/10/10 | David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
    The Noble Frontier Driller's massive orange support columns and 175-foot steel derrick cut a majestic figure as it pulled into Signal International's east shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., last weekend, a casualty of President Barack Obama's six-month moratorium on deepwater oil and gas exploration.