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Pride International, Inc. was an offshore oil drilling company headquartered in Houston, Texas. As of February 2011, it operated 26 drilling rigs . [ 1 ] In May 2011, it was acquired by Ensco (now Valaris Limited ).
Valaris Limited. DS-6 Drillship taking on fuel bunkers in Walvis Bay, Namibia during the transit to Angola and start of a contract with BP. Valaris Limited (previously ENSCO-Rowan plc) is an offshore drilling contractor headquartered in Houston, Texas, and incorporated in Bermuda. It is the largest offshore drilling and well drilling company in ...
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. is an offshore drilling contractor. The company is headquartered in Katy, Texas, United States, and has major offices in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Scotland, Singapore, and Norway. [1] The company operates 15 drilling rigs including 11 semi-submersible platforms and 4 drillships. [1]
Thunder Horse PDQ is a BP plc and ExxonMobil joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on location over the Mississippi Canyon Thunder Horse oil field (Block 778/822), in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of New Orleans, moored in waters of 1,840 metres (6,040 ft). [4] The "PDQ" identifies the platform as being a P ...
The outlook for offshore drilling companies looks especially strong. A confluence of factors, including high oil prices and a recent spate of major offshore deepwater discoveries, has created an ...
Nabors Industries Limited. Nabors Industries Limited is an American global oil and gas drilling contractor that has operated since 1972. Based in Houston, Texas, Nabors operates the world’s largest land drilling rig fleet, with around 500 rigs operating in over 25 countries – in almost every significant O&G basin on the planet.
Offshore drilling. Holstein, an oil drilling platform at Green Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 100 miles from land. Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the ...
Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. [2] It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland. The company has offices in 20 countries, including Canada, the United States, Norway, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. [3]