Model D550 Vermeer horizontal directional drill has an thrust/pullback of of 550,000 pounds and torque of 100,000 lb.-ft.The Vermeer D550 controls have three different auto drilling... McLaughlin WH ...

U.S. oilfield services firm Halliburton has secured a contract from Petrobras for integrated drilling services across several offshore fields in Brazil.The contract scope includes drilling services ...

Aker BP ASA drilled a dry well in production license (PL) 869 near Bøyla field in the North Sea.

President Joe Biden banned new offshore oil and gas drilling along the U.S. coastlines, prompting complaints from President-elect Donald Trump that Biden is “doing everything possible to make ...

One of the plethora of executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska. While state political leaders ...

Biden invoked the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which gives presidents broad authority to implement drilling bans, but does not give them the authority to reverse them—meaning Trump ...

President Joe Biden is set to order a ban on new offshore oil and gas development across some 625 million acres of US coastal territory, ruling out the sale of drilling rights in Atlantic and ...

During his final weeks in the White House, President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order prohibiting new offshore oil and gas drilling, a move that would help protect areas of the ...

President Joe Biden is planning to prohibit future offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the nation’s coastline, setting up a potential roadblock for Republicans’ plans to expand ...

WASHINGTON—President Biden is planning to ban oil and gas drilling in certain federal waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans using a decades-old law that could make it difficult for the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Joe Biden speaks at a reception for new Democratic members of Congress in the State Dining Room of ...

Passed in 1953, the law controls developments for offshore oil and gas drilling. A provision of the law gives the executive office the authority to permanently protect federal waters from future ...