Oil & Gas Equipment & Services

Tenaris (NYSE: TS) has hit a 52-week high in today's trading. At last check the year-to-date performance of Tenaris has been a gain of 3.6%.

Shares of ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) are higher on the session by 1.13%, trading at $13.46. Overall call volume is now running at 3.25x the daily average, with 54% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,165 contracts have traded on the session so far. ION Geophysical...

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Iraq Limited to provide drilling services for 15 wells in the West Qurna (Phase I) oil field located in Southern Iraq. Halliburton will provide a complete range of well construction services utilizing three drilling...

Jefferies & Co. is out with a research note on the oil services names, and it has a Buy rating and a $59 price target on shares of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL). In a note to investors, Jefferies writes, "As we enter a potentially sloppy (but well documented owing to weather and North Africa) 1Q...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Carbo Ceramics (NYSE: CRR) is a “relatively unknown company. I'm bullish on these stocks that help drillers get more oil out of the ground. But I do expect them to pull back a bit here." He said that Express (NYSE: EXPR) “flies...

Shares of Cameron International Corporation (NYSE: CAM) are higher on the session by 1.05%, trading at $55.73. Overall call volume is now running at 3.27x the daily average, with 40% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 3,559 contracts have traded on the session so far. Cameron...

Credit Suisse Upgrades BHI To Outperform, $88 PT Credit Suisse has issued a report upgrading Baker Hughes (NYSE: BHI) from Neutral to Ourperform and increased the Price Target from $76 to $88 a share. According to the report, “We upgrade BHI to OP from Neutral: We clearly missed this opportunity...

Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) was upgraded by Credit Suisse from "neutral" to "outperform." BHI's shares closed at $71.22 yesterday. Baker Hughes' PEG ratio is 0.73. RBC Capital upgraded ImmunoGen Inc (NASDAQ: IMGN) from “sector perform” to “outperform.” IMGN's shares closed at $11.80...

TETRA Technologies, (NYSE: TTI) today announced that its wholly-owned Maritech Resources, Inc. subsidiary has entered into an agreement with Tana Exploration Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TRT Holdings, to sell, for approximately $222.25 million, its interests in oil and gas properties that...

Global Hunter is out with its report today on Mitcham Industries (NASDAQ: MIND), upgrading shares of MIND from Accumulate to Buy. In a note to clients, Global Hunter writes, "MIND posted impressive FQ4 2011 results exceeding consensus expectations and would have matched our forecast if not for...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Teva Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: TEVA) is a “mystery to me. That stock has been crushed. The health care stocks are going to bottom here." He believes that SeaDrill Limited (NYSE: SDRL) is “good. I like the oil drillers. There might...

Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: SOXS) lost 4.47% on Wednesday as Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) gained 4.94% and 3.90% respectively. Direxion Daily 30-Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: TMF) fell 4.32% today, and closed at $31.22....

Senior United Nations officials today voiced their shock and sadness after yesterday's plane crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in which a UN.

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) has been awarded several contracts by Statoil to provide services for two high-pressure/high-temperature fields offshore Norway. Halliburton estimates that these significant multiyear awards have the potential to exceed more than $200 million in value.

Mitcham Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIND) today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended January 31, 2011. Total revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 increased 14% to $19.7 million from $17.4 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. Net income for the...