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Pacific Drilling S.A. (NYSE: PACD) (NOTC: PDSA) announced today that its ultra-deepwater drillship the Pacific Scirocco commenced operations

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Pacific Drilling S.A. (NYSE:PACD) (NOTC:PDSA) announced today that it has received delivery of its newest drillship, the Pacific Santa Ana.

Deep Sea Metro has taken delivery of the newbuild drillship Deepsea Metro II from Hyundai Heaby Industries, according to a statment released by the company. 

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. said last week that it has a won a contract with Korean-shipbuilding giant DSME to provide emergency shutdown, fire

Fred Olsen Energy’s drilling unit, Dolphin Drilling, says it has entered into contracts with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC) for the provision of

It’s about a two and a half hour helicopter flight from Louisiana to get to this lonely patch of ocean far out in the Gulf of Mexico, but the

Reaching from Chile up to the Bering Sea, then down again to New Zealand, the fault lines circling the Pacific Ocean are named The Pacific Ring of Fire and

Houston-based drilling contractor Atwood Oceanics revealed Tuesday that one of its subsidiaries is the mystery buyer in an ultra-deepwater drillship

Just got an update from our Forum that the recently commissioned Noble Bully I left Keppel Shipyard in Singapore the other day bound for the Gulf of Mexico.

Noble Corporation said today that it has exercised its option with Hyundai Heavy Industries for the construction of an additional ultra-deepwater drillship,

Click on the image for the Hi-Resolution version 12,481 employees, 64 wheel powered hydraulic jack transporters, 1000 foot floating drydocks plus assorted

Siem Offshore has taken over the remaining 50% ownership interest in Overseas Drilling Ltd (ODL) from a subsidiary of Transocean, including full management of

  The world’s most storied deepwater oil rig, the Transocean Marianas, has developed a critical list after an anchor punctured her poontoon and is

Maersk Drilling, a business unit within the A.P. Moller- Maersk group, has declared its option to build two ultra deepwater drillships at Samsung Heavy

SEOUL (Dow Jones)–Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (009540.SE), the world’s largest shipbuilder by orders, expects its new ship orders to exceed $7.47

LUXEMBOURG – Pacific Drilling S.A. (NOTC: PDSA) announced today that it has received delivery of its newest drillship, the Pacific Mistral.  The Pacific

Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. (DO) signed two drilling contracts with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) that are expected to generate up to $1.8 billion in

Vantage Drilling has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd to construct an ultra-deepwater

Last week at OTC in Houston, Ulstein Group introduced the ‘Northern Light’ drilling derrick, a new integrated derrick solution based on existing