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Baker Hughes reports US rig count unchanged at 585 for a record third week, with oil and gas drilling activity stable across ...

Police said the driver lost control because the roads were slick due to the early morning rain. The big rig then jackknifed ...

Baker Hughes reports US rig count remains unchanged at 585, with oil and gas drilling activity stable but down 5% from last ...

Check here for weekly updated oil and gas drilling rig counts in the Permian Basin, New Mexico and Texas, reported by Baker Hughes. June 21 New Mexico saw no change to its rig count in the last ...

A new survey from TradeSafe, focused on industrial safety, asked workers if they would take on certain dangerous jobs for ...

Texas high school football Class 6A playoff sites and times from Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and ...

The number of oil rigs in the US held steady in the week ended Friday, according to data compiled by energy services company Baker Hughes (BKR). The counts for oil, gas, and miscellaneous rigs were ...

(Steve Hamm / Special Contributor) Texas was still hours away from final turnout totals ... “There are people trying to rig ...

The last World War I-era American dreadnought USS Texas (BB-35) will remain in the Port of Galveston as a museum ship, but ...

"Landman" is set "in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas" and is described as "a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the ...

In Texas, oil rig worker topped the list: A quarter of respondents in the state would not work on an oil rig, even if offered twice their pay. "The dangerous working conditions, remote locations ...