Warrego Energy, along with Strike Energy, announced the spudding of its second well on the EP469 concession in the Perth Basin onshore West Australia, the West Erregulla 3...

US horizontal drilling activity in oil basins, which has plummeted due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is not likely to materially recover this year, a new Rystad Energy analysis shows...

An operator in West Texas recently deployed Cerebro Force to improve directional control while drilling the curve portion of its wells. This reduced the time to drill the curve section by 38%...

Canadian oil sands production is expected to decline by nearly 175,000 bbl/day in 2020 as a result of COVID-19—the largest annual decline on record...

US land rig activity in oil basins appears to have hit rock bottom as the count of horizontal oil-focused rigs declined by one more during the week of 13 July, falling from 157 rigs to 156 rigs...

Acoustic Data announced it has been awarded a $4.5 million three-year contract by a supermajor to deploy its SonicGauge Wireless Monitoring System in onshore gas fields in Asia...

Cyberhawk, the creator of iHawk, a cloud-based asset visualization software, announced that it has secured a five-year, multimillion-dollar software contract with Royal Dutch Shell...

SIMMONS EDECO announced that it has successfully completed its first drilling contract for Mexico oil and gas operator Newpek...

The global oilfield service market is expected to decline by 15% in 2020 compared with 2019, Martin Opdal, Consulting Principal, said during a virtual meeting held by the IADC Southeast Asia Chapter on 14 May...

As oil prices tumble to stomach-churning lows and E&Ps slash CAPEX budgets one after another, drilling contractors turn their focus to business sustainability in preparation for further drops in the rig count By Stephen Whitfield, Associate Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has sent shock waves through the industry over the past couple of months. As the global economy ground to a halt, the outlook for US shale and land drilling has become much less certain. Operators and drilling contractors have scrambled to position themselves for the long haul as best as they can. In a market that was already oversupplied, energy demand has now fallen off a cliff, although the full impact will depend on the duration of the pandemic and ...