The tall derrick on an oil drilling rig collapsed at a site about four miles north of Belfield. No one was injured and no fluids or liquids spilled from the completed well in the collapse, said Nabors ...

Year and a half ago two veteran Oklahoma oil men put a fancy new, aluminum-colored portable rotary drilling rig on display at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla. It attracted little ...

DICKINSON, N.D. -- When oil prices drop, rig workers winnow down and companies pull their drilling rigs into the Bakken's core, the discharged derricks and associated equipment have to go somewhere -- ...

According to a well-placed industry source, the tracks that guide the top drive as it moves up and down the derrick are out of alignment. The source suggested that continued drilling could wear out ...

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is in the middle of a gas-drilling boom. The new activity is the equivalent of adding a $3 billion company to the metroplex. Dan Piller, a reporter for the Fort-Worth Star ...