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Boom goes bust for oil drillers as crude prices tumble

10/01/2015
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More oil rigs went idle last week than any week in more than two decades.

With a global supply glut sending prices for crude plummeting, U.S. oil drillers are pulling up stakes as if fleeing a blown out well.

The number of active oil rigs in the U.S. fell by 61, to 1,750, last week, according to the latest rig count from oilfield services company Baker Hughes. It was the largest weekly decline since February 1991 and it comes after more than six months of steadily declining oil prices.

Crude oil prices have dropped 55% since last summer and are at their lowest level since 2009 thanks to worldwide oversupply driven, in part, by the U.S. shale boom as well as declining consumption in China and Europe. Prices fell again on Friday and have remained under $50 per barrel for much of the year, taking a major financial toll on the energy industry as a whole.

In recent months, more and more oil drillers have announced plans to scale back their oil production as a result of the glut. Both Dallas-based Matador Resources and Houston’s Sanchez Energy said this week that they are scaling back spending and drilling in the Texas Eagle Ford shale field due to the ongoing decline in oil prices. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported this week that contract drillers Helmerich & Payne and Pioneer Energy Services both said they have had clients opt to terminate drilling contracts earlier than expected, while Canadian oilfield services company Ensign Energy Services plans to lay off as many as 700 workers in California.

Source: Fortune

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