Baker Hughes rig count continues to climb in US, slides in Canada
Baker Hughes rig count continued to climb in the US.
Baker Hughes rig count continued to climb in the US.
Baker Hughes has reinforced its commitment to its annual 10k marathon after it emerged the US firm was closing at least one of its buildings in Aberdeen while consolidating other facilities.
The US has posted the highest weekly natural gas rig count in two years, according to Baker Hughes.
Baker Hughes has put one of its Aberdeen premises up for sale.
Baker Hughes rig count recorded an increase of 37 week-on-week.
Fledgling energy service company Ardyne, of Aberdeen, has lured oil and gas industry-heavyweight Jochem Scherpenisse from Baker Hughes.
A Norwegian trade union has said it would step up strike action among oil service workers, a news report said.
The Baker Hughes rig count posted another week of growth.
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Baker Hughes is said to be cutting its pay for US workers by 5% in a bid to reduce costs and lessen the need for additional job reductions.
The Us rig count was up eight week-on-week to 497, according to the latest figures from Baker Hughes.
US rig count has continued its climb, according to data from Baker Hughes.
US rig count is sitting at about half of last year’s total, according to Baker Hughes data.
Baker Hughes has reported a loss of $911million for the second quarter of the year.
The world’s two largest providers of oilfield drilling and fracking services have now declared that the worst may be over in the two-year-old oil market crash.
The penalty of pulling out of its takeover of rival Baker Hughes plunged energy services giant Halliburton deep into the red during the second quarter.
Halliburton has posted a quarterly loss after being hit by a $3.5billion fee it paid to terminating its deal to buy Baker Hughes.
An oil field services firm is to make dozens of job cuts in Aberdeen, it can be revealed today.
Crude fell a third day after the number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. rose for a second week.
US explorers aren’t the only ones idling rigs as sub-$50 crude forces oil and gas drillers in Africa to slow their search for new reserves.
Baker Hughes has said it plans to buy back $1.5billion of shares and $1billion of debt using the breakup fee it will receive following the collapse of its proposed buyout by Halliburton.
Halliburton Co. and Baker Hughes Inc. called off their $28 billion merger, which has met stiff antitrust resistance from regulators in the U.S. and Europe.
Baker Hughes said it expects the US rig count will begin to stabilise in the second half of the year, while the rig count globally will drop steadily through the year.
Halliburton acquisition of Baker Hughes (BHI.N), a deal which US authorities say is uncompetitive, is being looked at again by EU competition regulators.
General Electric Co. could become one of the top players in the oil services and equipment industry if it decides to bid for Baker Hughes Inc.