CALGARY - Drilling companies continue to move rigs from Western Canada to the more active oilfields of the southern United States. Calgary-based Western Energy Services Corp. says it moved a drilling rig from Canada to the U.S. Permian Basin oil play in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico early this year and will likely move more rigs in the near future. Drilling companies are continuing to move rigs from Western Canada into the more active oilfields of the southern United States. ( Larry MacDougal / THE CANADIAN PRESS )It says the addition took its U.S. drilling fleet to eight rigs, including a drilling rig purchased and upgraded in the U.S. near the end of 2018 and also deployed in the Permian Basin. The Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors says its members relocated 16 of their rigs to the U.S. in 2018, up from just six in 2017.

Source: thestar February 13, 2019 22:30 UTC