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The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission says the country’s oil rig count has risen to 32. The NUPRC Chief Executive, Gbenga Komolafe, announced this during his recent appearance ...

A pair of abandoned oil wells that were leaking into a lake at an Ottawa County park have been cleaned out and capped off.

In August 2024, Duchesne Mayor Rodney Rowley informed the Duchesne County Sheriff's Office about a possible misuse of public funds. Hanson and several other unnamed employees were either "not ...

DUCHESNE, Utah (ABC4) — An oil tank caught fire in Duchesne County Friday afternoon while the tanks were having maintenance done, according to the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office.

The total U.S. rig count is made up of 480 oil rigs, 100 gas rigs, and four miscellaneous rigs, according to the count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 522 horizontal rigs ...

REPORTING IN LOWER BOROU Water rescue crews and first responders were on the scene Monday following an oil spill at a plant in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County.Westmoreland County dispatch ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, after a 4-rig drop in each of the two ...

Two leaking oil wells from the 1940s have been plugged to prevent further oil spills into an Ottawa County lake. After responding to a kayaker's tip in April 2023, the Ottawa County Parks ...

(Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a third week in a row to the lowest since December 2021, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its ...

For the week ended Jan. 31, the rig count in Canada stood at 258, according to Baker Hughes data. There were 12 additional oil-directed rigs working in Canada and 1 additional gas-directed rig ...