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The company was formed in 2001 by the merger of Global Marine and Santa Fe International Corporation. [2] In March 2003, the company temporarily suspended operations in Kuwait ahead of the Iraq War. [3] [4] In May 2004, the company sold its worldwide land drilling assets to Precision Drilling for $316.5 million. [5] [6]
The Enterprise class drillship is the largest of the drilling ships. [9] In 1999, Transocean merged with Sedco Forex, the offshore drilling subsidiary of Schlumberger in a $3.2 billion stock transaction in which Schlumberger shareholders received shares of Transocean. [10]
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 the world, and owns 52 rigs, including 36 offshore jackup rigs, 11 drillships, and 5 semi-submersible platform drilling rigs. [1]
NOV Inc., formerly National Oilwell Varco, is an American multinational corporation based in Houston, Texas.It is a worldwide provider of equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production operations, oilfield services, and supply chain integration services to the upstream oil and gas industry.
In 1923, Ralph Thomas McDermott established J. Ray McDermott & Company Incorporated at the age of 24 upon receipt of a contract to build 50 wooden drilling rigs for a wildcatter in Luling, Texas. Knowing he could benefit from his father's long-time experience in the lumber and oilfield construction businesses, Ralph made John Raymond McDermott ...
The company was founded in 1966 in Alice, Texas as Pride Oilwell Service Company. In 1978, the company was acquired by Dekalb Corporation. In August 1988, the company was spun out as a public company. [2] In 1996, the company acquired Quitral-Co. Saic, the largest drilling contractor in Argentina, for $140 million. [3] It also acquired Forasol ...
Atwood Oceanics, Inc. was an offshore drilling contractor headquartered in Houston, Texas.In October 2017, the company was acquired by Ensco plc. [1]The company owned and operated 4 ultra-deepwater drillships, 2 ultra-deepwater semisubmersibles (can drill in water up to 12,000' deep), 2 deepwater semisubmersibles, and 5 high-specification jackup rigs.
Helix Energy Solutions Inc., known as Cal Dive International prior to 2006, is an American oil and gas services company headquartered in Houston, Texas.The company is a global provider of offshore services in well intervention and ROV operations of new and existing oil and gas fields.