Oilfield Services

The global oil and natural gas upcycle has begun, with more capital spending set to flow into the onshore and offshore heading into 2022, Schlumberger Ltd. CEO Olivier Le Peuch said Friday. The head of the world’s largest oilfield services (OFS) company shared a bullish view of the energy markets during a third-quarter conference call…

Precision Drilling Corp., an oilfield services behemoth whose reach extends across Canada, the United States and into international markets, is seeing “ the most promising backdrop for our business that we have experienced in almost a decade,” CEO Kevin Neveu said Thursday.  The bullish views have led the Calgary-based operator to pump up its capital…

Solid growth continued across some of the biggest oil and natural gas production regions in the country during the third quarter, but supply costs are rising and executives are a bit more wary than earlier this year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said Wednesday. The Dallas Fed, as it is known, collected data across…

Upstream oil and natural gas employment in Texas expanded in August, with monthly jobs gains since last September —  the low point — outnumbering declines, according to a top energy industry group. The latest Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) data suggests that upstream employment “expanded by 2,800 jobs in August,” the Texas Oil & Gas Association…

Houston-based Ranger Energy Services Inc. said it has successfully bid to buy some of the Lower 48 assets of Basic Energy Services Inc. for close to $37 million. The deal gives Basic, now in bankruptcy, room to restructure. The Fort Worth, TX-based oilfield services (OFS) provider in August filed for Chapter 11 protection for the…

Basic Energy Services Inc. is once again seeking voluntary bankruptcy protection and plans to sell off a substantial portion of its Lower 48 assets. Hit by the oil price rout in 2015 and 2016, the Fort Worth, TX-based oilfield services operator successfully emerged from voluntary bankruptcy five years ago. After Covid-19 bashed energy demand last…

The plethora of bankruptcies that engulfed the North American oil and gas sector as Covid-19 stripped demand has begun to subside, according to Haynes and Boone LLP. The law firm since 2015 has monitored the North American oil patch, oilfield services (OFS) and midstream sectors to tally bankruptcies. A dozen exploration and production (E&P) producers…

The head of oilfield services (OFS) giant Schlumberger Ltd. said the company is “seizing the beginning of the upcycle,” with international activity expected to lead growth — and North America set to moderate — in the continued recovery from Covid-19. On the 2Q2021 earnings call with investors Friday, CEO Olivier Le Peuch said that while…

A ramp-up in oil drilling, especially in the Permian Basin, sent the U.S. rig count surging seven units higher to 491 for the week ended Friday (July 23), the latest numbers from oilfield services provider Baker Hughes Co. (BKR) show. All of the net gains domestically for the week occurred in the oil patch, with…