These active drilling rigs include 482 oil rigs operating in U.S. oil fields, up by five from the previous week; 102 gas drilling rigs, up by two from last week; and five miscellaneous rigs, the same ...
Shale oil is extremely difficult to extract, requiring the drilling of horizontal wells and fracturing of oil-bearing shale, creating artificial fractures with water and other items. Engineers ...
For almost a decade, Tony Sanchez III was the epitome of a shale-boom CEO—furiously drilling oil wells, piling on debt and hunting quail and nilgai with fellow executives near his family’s ...
Shale E&P companies are demonstrating financial resilience and the ability to generate strong cash flows, even at lower oil prices. Increased drilling efficiency and cost reductions are ...