Tag: rig

Major slowdowns on I-10 after big rig rolls over, spills sand and gas

Traffic was crawling at a near standstill on Interstate 10 near Thousand Palms Tuesday morning after a big rig rolled over and spilled sand and gas onto the roadway. At around 10 a.m. Tuesday, a truck with two trailers attached heading westbound crashed and overturned on the South Cook Street on-ramp, blocking the ramp, the […]

Big rig hauling cherries overturns on Fresno highway

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A big rig hauling cherries overturned on Tuesday on a connecter ramp linking Highway 180 to Highway 99 in Fresno; the CHP says the driver may have gone around the corner too fast. Officers say shortly after 11 a.m. the big rig hauling cherries was going from eastbound Highway 180 to […]

US rig count down four as prices slide

May 24—The rig count in the Permian Basin was unchanged this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 312 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 350 rigs were active in the region. Nationally, the oil and gas rig count is down four from last week at 600 rigs. A year […]

Big rig pins SUV against pole in Fresno Co., 1 hospitalized

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man is hospitalized following a traffic collision between an SUV and a big rig in Fresno County, the California Highway Patrol announced. Officers say they responded to a traffic collision in the area of Chestnut and North Avenues in Fresno County just after 8 p.m. on Monday. According to CHP, […]

Basin rig count up one as prices rebound

Mar. 29—The rig count in the Permian Basin was up one this week, the latest count Thursday by Baker Hughes shows, with 316 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 352 rigs were active in the region. Nationally, the oil and gas rig count is down three from last week at 621 rigs. A […]

Big rig plows into trooper, roadside assistance patrollers in I-40 pileup

Mar. 22—A four-vehicle pileup on Interstate 40 in Haywood County injured six people Thursday night — including a Highway Patrol trooper and two roadside assistance patrollers — when a tractor trailer ran into the stopped vehicles from behind. The trooper and IMAP drivers had stopped on the shoulder of I-40 near exit 20 at Jonathan […]