There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so.

Offshore oil rigs have made it possible to collect oil and natural gas from below the ocean's floor, appearing as massive megastructures in the middle of open water. Given their sheer size and ...

Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig. Meredith Wilshere is a ... If it's a nice day out, that's the best part of the job," O'Connor shares with PEOPLE exclusively.

The total U.S. rig count is made up of 473 oil rigs, 100 gas rigs, and three miscellaneous rigs, according to Baker Hughes’ count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 520 horizontal ...

For the week ended May 16, the rig count in Canada stood at 121, according to Baker Hughes data. There were 6 additional oil-directed rigs working in Canada last week and 1 additional gas-directed ...

The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by six to 578 in the week to May 9. Baker Hughes said this week's decline puts the total rig count down 25, or 4% below this ...

(Reuters) -U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to their lowest since January, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on ...

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Crude prices maintained their gains Friday after Baker Hughes reported that active US oil rigs fell to a 3-1/2 year low, a harbinger of lower future US crude production. Don’t Miss a Day ...

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