Table 1 shows the 12 drilling contractors that control most of the higher-spec rigs in the US land drilling fleet. As of June 2008, this includes 374 rigs of 1,500-2,000 hp and 105 rigs of 2,000 ...

US land rig drilling is up 19% and Canadian drilling is up 41% from a year ago, according to Baker Hughes Inc.'s North American rotary rig counts for Apr. 30, 2004.

China's Honghua Group, a leading global land drilling rig manufacturer under the Dongfang Electric Corporation, delivered the domestically developed 12,000-meter intelligent deep drilling rig in ...

The general public has not seen images of Shell Oil Co.’s Arctic drilling rig, the Kulluk, on site off the coast of Alaska, and a sense of the rig’s proximity to protected lands has been hard ...

The ten land rigs will be added to Arabian Drilling’s current land rig fleet of 38 units, it said in a news release Tuesday. The terms of the contracts, excluding options, are five years.

The Transocean Equinox rig has arrived in the Otway Basin, marking a significant step for the Otway Exploration Drilling Programme (OEDP) scheduled for 2025. The focus of the programme is to ...

Kuwait Drilling and Honghua strike land rig deal. Honghua units will be used to drill ultra-deep wells in the Middle East. Handshake: contract is worth $60 million. Photo: DONGFANG ELECTRIC.

ADNOC Drilling is set to acquire ten new-build hybrid power land drilling rigs for $252m, with the aim to increase its onshore capacity and meet ADNOC Group’s accelerated production capacity target.

Drilling of Macaw-1 is expected to last up to four months, with TotalEnergies signalling it will require a drillship instead of a semi-submersible rig for the job.