"Roughneck" is a general term for anyone who works on an oil patch. In much the same way people who work at logging camps ... Manuel also worked on the floor of the rig with Cooper, but he handled ...

Whether pipe is being fed into the wellbore or it is being taken out, the iron roughneck uses ... efficiency on the rig. Despite drill pipe automation, men and women who work on the rig (usually ...

What was once left to numerous workers on the rig deck has now become automated. With the iron roughneck, which connects and feeds pipe into the wellbore, and MWD and LWD technologies, drilling ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire after an explosion on Tuesday night has now sunk, the US Coast Guard has said. A search is continuing for 11 missing workers after the blast at ...