After an epic collapse in crude prices, US oil companies still aren't blinking. Investment in drilling rigs and wells actually improved in the closing months of 2014. Outlays for rigs and wells climbed at an 8.9 per cent pace in the fourth quarter after an 8.3 per cent increase from July through September, Friday's Commerce Department report on gross domestic product showed. Those figures are a slight slowdown from numbers in the first half of 2014, but are definitely no halt. That increase is even more impressive when you look at what happened to equipment spending across all ...