Rigs News in United States
| 1/16/2014 - Transocean Ltd. issued a comprehensive Fleet Status Report, which provides the current status and contract information for the company's entire fleet of offshore drilling rigs. The total value of new ... |
| 12/23/2013 - Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has delivered ENSCO 121, the second ultra-premium harsh environment ENSCO 120 Series jackup rig, to Ensco plc (Ensco). Built to an enhanced version of Keppel's proprietar... |
| 12/12/2013 - Atwood Oceanics, Inc announced the delivery of the Atwood Advantage from the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine
Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME) shipyard in South Korea. The Atwood Advantage has departed the ... |
| 11/19/2013 - BP announced it has added two drilling rigs to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, bringing its fleet to a company record nine rigs as it continues to develop its strong portfolio of assets in the key U.S. ... |
| 11/18/2013 - Royal Dutch Shell Plc has acontract with Transocean Ltd for a drilling rig to startwork off the coast of Alaska starting July of next year - intime for the state's traditional Arctic offshore drilling... |
| 11/7/2013 - Hercules Offshore announced that it has entered into an agreement with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Bhd ("Perisai") to act as operations and maintenance manager of the Peri... |
| 10/21/2013 - Port Graham Corporation announced that it is pleased to provide a protected harbor for the drilling rig Endeavour, which arrived last week for winterization. The Endeavour joins the Spartan 151 drilli... |
| 10/10/2013 - Maersk Drilling’s first ultra deepwater drillship was named in a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea. Mrs. Nathalie Newman, wife of Mr. Harry E. Newma... |
| 8/6/2013 - Rowan Companies plc announced that one of its subsidiaries has entered into a three-year contract with Cobalt International Energy, L.P. ("Cobalt") for the Rowan Reliance, one of Rowan's new ultra-dee... |
| 7/30/2013 - Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc announced that it is proceeding with the construction of a second newbuild semisubmersible well intervention vessel, to be named the Q7000. Owen Kratz, Helix’s Presid... |
| 6/10/2013 - Kosmos Energy Ltd announced that it has signed a long-term rig agreement with a subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics, Inc for the new build drillship Atwood Achiever. Currently under construction in South Ko... |
| 6/4/2013 - Atwood Oceanics, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a drilling services contract by Shell Offshore Inc. for the dynamically positioned, ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rig, t... |
| 4/18/2013 - Noble Corporation has entered into two (2) three-year term drilling contracts with Plains Exploration & Production Company for the Noble Sam Croft and the Noble Tom Madden, two of Noble's new ultra-de... |
| 1/22/2013 - Vantage Drilling Company announced that it has received a conditional letter of award for its newbuild drillship the Tungsten Explorer to work in West Africa. The award is for a period of up to four y... |
| 12/18/2012 - Pacific Drilling S.A announced that it has reached an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries to extend an option to construct an eighth ultra-deepwater drillship until January 18, 2013, on the same c... |
| 12/17/2012 - Transocean Ltd issued a monthly fleet update summary which includes new contracts, significant changes to existing contracts, and changes in estimated planned out of service time of 15 or more days as... |
| 12/10/2012 - Noble Corporation has entered into two separate Definitive Agreements for the sale of two standard jackup drilling units. The first agreement, for the 300-foot water depth capable jackup Noble Lewis ... |
| 11/20/2012 - Vantage Drilling Company announced that it has entered into a joint venture with an affiliate of Skeie Group and other investors for purposes of constructing a new, high specification drillship at STX... |
| 11/19/2012 - Transocean Ltd issued a monthly fleet update summary which includes new contracts, significant changes to existing contracts, and changes in estimated planned out of service time of 15 or more days si... |
| 11/15/2012 - Pacific Drilling S.A announced that its ultra-deepwater drillship the Pacific Khamsin has been awarded a contract by a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Chevron Corporation for operations in West A... |
