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IE Questions: Where Do All The Drilling Rigs Go?
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In which we define “warm stacking” and “cold stacking” and discuss what happens when a drilling rig is “laid down.”
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In which we define “warm stacking” and “cold stacking” and discuss what happens when a drilling rig is “laid down.”
Companies have been borrowing more and more to drill in America’s oil fields, a trend occurring long before the dramatic slide in oil prices of the last six months.
The rapid slide in oil prices is having the most impact on small oil companies in the Bakken.
Everything is tinged pink this month to raise breast cancer awareness, and the color is popping up in some unexpected places–like oil rigs. For the second year in a row, Baker Hughes is showing support for Susan G. Komen Foundation by painting its drill bits pink.
Horizontal drilling and fracking have prompted an oil boom in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, Alisa Barba reported earlier this week. But an increase in drilling — 590 oil wells have been drilled and completed in the Powder River Basin since January of 2009 — has its consequences. Mead Gruver from Associated Press reported yesterday that 2014 has already been the state’s worst year for oil spills since 2009.
The dangers of the Bering Sea crab fishery have been made famous by the reality TV show Deadliest Catch, but in the last 15 years, it’s become much safer, in large part thanks to collaboration between industry, scientists and regulators. We wondered: are there lessons that the oil and gas industry could learn from the crab industry’s safety gains?
For more than a decade, Wyoming has been among the most dangerous places in the nation for workers. Fatalities peaked in the late 2000s, at the height of the state’s natural gas drilling frenzy. The number of deaths has fallen in recent years, but has the safety culture changed, or did the drilling rigs just move on?
As communities find themselves in the midst of unprecedented energy development, for people who live near oil and gas wells, are there health risks?
Inside Energy met with scientists to learn how oil and gas drilling affects your health and to clarify the confusion.
Find out about what drilling means for water, air and your health, and how a new research collaboration is helping communities understand the risks and benefits of the drilling boom.
A University of Alberta assistant professor wanted to make public information about oil and gas wells easier to find and use. So he started a project to collect drilling data from state agencies, gather it together in an easy-to-search database, and invite the public to add notes, observations and anecdotes.