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Vol. 9, No. 30 Week of July 25, 2004
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


It is getting harder to find land drilling rigs

Demand for drilling services is on the verge of outstripping supply as the U.S. land market tightens

Richard Mason

Publisher Land Rig Newsletter

Richard Mason is publisher of The Land Rig Newsletter, a monthly publication that provides trends analysis for the land-based contract drilling sector of the oil and gas industry. He previously worked as a field historian for the Texas Tech University archives, collecting historical materials on petroleum, agriculture and irrigation development in the American Southwest. He is a 1974 graduate of Ohio University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in history.

A simple question for the E&P firms out there. Got your drilling rigs lined up for 2004? If not, it may be an agonizing second half of 2004 while prospects lie fallow, waiting on rigs during a period of extraordinarily high oil and gas prices. It is getting harder to find land drilling rigs as the c....

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