Statoil let a contract to Aker Solutions to hire a category B drilling rig, a new type of rig, which is designed to increase recovery from the company’s operating fields on the Norwegian continental ...

Even though more than 1,000 rigs are inactive in the US, drilling contractors are building new land rigs to satisfy operator demand for improved technology. In the case of Nabors Drilling USA LP, ...

Epiroc, a leading productivity partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, is exhibiting a variety of innovative and productive offerings for the first time in North America at ...

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MK Diamond's Manta III Core Drill Rigs are all-purpose drilling rigs that are designed to core holes up to 14 inches in diameter in all types of concrete floors, walls, and ceilings. MK Diamond's ...

Rise in demand for metals and minerals, increase in construction activities of roads, tunnels, and railways, and expansion of existing mines would drive the growth of the global rotary blasthole ...

Below the surface, there may be some variances in the pace of decline of the various drilling rig types that could moderate the optimism of a quick production reaction. This opinion piece presents the ...

WASHINGTON — In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the ...