Sifting

The Natural Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Wednesday began sifting through pieces of the Columbia Gas Transmission system that ruptured near the pipeline’s Lanham Compressor Station sear Sissonville, WV, a rural community of 4,000 about 15 miles north of the state capital, Charleston.

After sifting through the numbers of the recent ReedHycalog Rig Census, analysts at Raymond James & Associates found some interesting new trends in the drilling industry, particularly the shift in domestic drilling to a larger land fleet, migration of the offshore rig fleet overseas and higher domestic rig utilizations — but still below the 2001 peak.

After sifting through the numbers of the recent ReedHycalog Rig Census, analysts at Raymond James & Associates found some interesting new trends in the drilling industry, particularly the shift in domestic drilling to a larger land fleet, migration of the offshore rig fleet overseas and higher domestic rig utilizations — but still below the 2001 peak.