The sector has added more than 19,000 jobs this year, but employment in the sector is still 10.5 percent below ... and production companies, which hire oil-field services firms, stopped drilling ...

U.S. oil-field services and equipment companies added thousands of jobs in June as oil producers continued to bring more rigs online to meet recovering demand for petroleum products. Employment in ...

While mighty Schlumberger is an ideal proxy for the oil-field services group, here is a trio of smaller services companies the analysts are touting. The old adage that investors should watch ...

Cost-cutting and price-cutting have been the major trends in the oil field services sector ... in North America for pressure pumping services has forced companies to cut prices and the falling ...

Oil field services companies are gaining momentum. Schlumberger and National Oil Well Varco have set strong footholds for future growth. Both companies are good stocks to buy and hold. In this ...

But Harris said company-wide job cuts would be “dramatically less” than 10 percent. Oil field services companies staffed up in recent years as the price of crude rose toward record levels ...