Rig Equipment News in United States
| 6/8/2021 - Hoping to accelerate the adoption of automated drilling solutions in the oil and gas industry, NOV and Schlumberger have announced a collaborated solution for operators and drilling contractors. The c... |
| 2/28/2019 - EnerQuip, a leading supplier of torque machine solutions for the global oil and gas industry, has delivered a major contract with Vantage. The project will mark the first time one of its high torque m... |
| 10/4/2017 - Sacgasco Limited advises that Paul Graham Drilling Rig 9 and associated equipment continues to be moved off the Dempsey 1-15 well location to make way for a more appropriately sized and cost effective... |
| 10/6/2014 - Stone Energy Corporation has entered into an agreement to contract the ENSCO 8503 dynamically positioned deep water drilling rig for Stone's multi-year deep water drilling program in the Gulf of Mexic... |
| 6/4/2012 - More than one year prior to delivery Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with a major oil company for the first in a series of four identical ultra deepwater drillships currently under construction.... |
| 3/20/2012 - Vantage Drilling Company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the rights and obligations under the construction contract for the ultra-deepwater drillship known as Dragonques... |
| 3/20/2012 - Hercules Offshore, Inc. announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire the offshore drilling rig Ocean Columbia from a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. The purchase price is... |
| 2/27/2012 - Seadrill has in the last year seen a surge in long-term demand for tender rigs and modern ultra-deepwater drilling rigs. The increased demand for ultra-deepwater rigs has been driven by high oil price... |
| 2/7/2012 - Leni Gas & Oil plc announces a short delay to the start of drilling operations at the Eugene Island Field ("EI-184") in the US Gulf of Mexico. The current operator of the Ocean Columbia jack-up rig at... |
| 2/1/2012 - Pacific Drilling S.A. announced that one of its subsidiaries has reached an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries to extend until February 17, 2012 an option to construct a seventh ultra-deepwater d... |
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1/9/2012 - Keppel AmFELS LLC, a US wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has secured a contract from Diamond Offshore to construct and upgrade a moored semisubmersible rig with de... |
| 12/29/2011 - Patterson-Uti Energy, Inc. announced that it is retiring thirty-one of its drilling rigs in December 2011. The rigs being retired have an average rating of 735 horsepower and thirty of the rigs are m... |
| 12/28/2011 - Lamprell, a leading provider of specialist engineering services to the international offshore and onshore oil & gas and renewables industries, is pleased to announce that it has received a contract aw... |
| 11/23/2011 - Pacific Drilling S.A. provided an update on the status of its ultra-deepwater drillships. The Pacific Bora commenced its three year contract with a wholly owned Chevron subsidiary on August 26, 2011, ... |
| 8/29/2011 - Beach Energy Ltd advises it has secured two Ensign Australia Pty Ltd (“Ensign”) rigs, Ensign#65 and Ensign#16, to drill both horizontal and vertical wells targeting its unconventional gas play in the ... |
| 6/16/2011 - Miller Energy Resources announced that it has entered into a contract with Voorhees Equipment and Consulting, Inc. for the custom construction and purchase of a drilling rig to be used on Miller's Osp... |
| 2/28/2011 - Transocean Ltd., the world’s largest offshore oil driller, may attempt to recover some or all of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank during last year’s Macondo well disaster. ... |
| 10/5/2010 - ATWOOD OCEANICS announced that Atwood Oceanics Pacific Limited ("AOPL"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics, Inc. executed turnkey construction agreements with PPL Shipyard PTE LTD ("PPL") t... |
| 12/23/2008 - SeaBird Exploration Limited has been awarded two contracts for the Aquila Explorer in South America and the Far East. These contracts are back-to-back and will commence when Aquila Explorer is ending ... |
| 12/2/2005 - Rowan Companies, Inc. announced plans for the construction of two jack-up rigs to add to its offshore fleet. The rigs will be a new design called the LeTourneau 240C. This design has enhanced environm... |
