Rigs News in United States
| 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... |
| 9/28/2012 - Transocean Ltd announced that it has been awarded 10-year contracts for four newbuild dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillships by Royal Dutch Shell (Shell). Shipyard delivery for the first dr... |
| 9/27/2012 - Noble Energy, Inc. announced that it has entered into a 36 month contract with a subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics Inc. for a new build drillship to support its global new ventures efforts in deepwater ex... |
| 8/21/2012 - Miller Energy Resources announced that its Rig-35 received final approvals to commence drilling from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after a thorough and rigorous rig inspection followe... |
| 8/20/2012 - Hercules Offshore, Inc. announced that it has closed the previously announced sale of Platform Rig 3, along with its wholly owned subsidiaries, TODCO Mexico Inc. and Servicios TODCO S. de R.L. de C.V.... |
