Rigs News in United States
| 8/14/2012 - Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. announced that a subsidiary has entered into a contract with Jurong Shipyard of Singapore to build a moored semisubmersible rig with delivery scheduled for the second q... |
| 7/31/2012 - Ensco plc took delivery of the seventh and final rig in the ENSCO 8500 Series on 30 July at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore, where all the rigs in the series have been built. The rig is contract... |
| 7/31/2012 - Buccaneer Energy Limited is pleased to advise that the jack-up rig “Endeavour – Spirit of Independence” has been loaded onto the Kang Sheng Kou heavy lift vessel and is in route to the Cook Inlet, Ala... |
| 7/10/2012 - ATWOOD OCEANICS, INC. announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a twelve-month contract extension with an affiliate of Coastal Energy Company for the jackup rig Vicksburg. The extension ... |
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6/14/2012 - Transocean, owner of the world's largest offshore drilling fleet, has put its Middle East rig assets up for sale, in a deal likely to raise $1 billion for the Switzerland-based company, three sources ... |
| 4/2/2012 - Keppel AmFELS LLC, a US wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has won a contract from Mexico's Perforadora Central SA de CV (Perforadora Central) to build a repeat jack... |
| 3/16/2012 - Pacific Drilling S.A. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary exercised an option to construct its seventh ultra-deepwater drillship with Samsung Heavy Industries. ... |
| 1/17/2012 - Parker Drilling announced that completion of its two new-design Arctic Alaska Drilling Units (AADUs) has been delayed to allow the Company to modify the rigs to meet their design and functional requir... |
| 12/29/2011 - CIMC Raffles delivered a Jack-up drilling rig the Master Driller to the Reignwood International Investment (Group) Company Limited, with the delivery ceremony being held in the No. 1 dock. Mr. Liu Sha... |
| 11/1/2011 - Rowan announced that it has exercised its option to build a third GustoMSC P10000 design ultra-deepwater drillship with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) with delivery scheduled for the fourth ... |
| 10/17/2011 - Atwood Oceanics, Inc., announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a drilling services contract by Hess Corporation for work in the Gulf of Mexico for the Atwood Condor, Atwood's ultra-dee... |
| 9/16/2011 - Blake International and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation have entered into a contract to mobilize the Blake Rig 1007 onto the Marco Polo TLP at Green Canyon 608. The contract is for 2 wells with a 1 wel... |
| 8/1/2011 - Treaty Energy Corporation, a growth-oriented energy company in the oil and gas industry, reported on activities of C&C Petroleum Management LLC, the Company's Texas operations subsidiary, related to i... |
| 7/6/2011 - Union Drilling, Inc. has entered into contracts to purchase two new drilling rigs based upon executed three-year contracts with a long-standing customer. The 1,500 horsepower AC electric drilling rigs... |
| 7/6/2011 - Two more shallow-water rigs owned by Noble Corp, the world's third-largest offshore contractor, are going back to work off Mexico, meaning its entire fleet designated for that country is under contrac... |
| 7/5/2011 - Patterson-Uti Energy, Inc. reported that for the month of June 2011, the Company had an average of 205 drilling rigs operating, including 201 rigs in the United States and 4 rigs in Canada. For the th... |
| 6/13/2011 - Atwood Oceanics, Inc. announced that on June 9, 2011, one of its subsidiaries had reached an agreement with the PPL Shipyard PTE LTD (PPL) to delay the required commitment date for the next Pacific Cl... |
| 6/1/2011 - Rowan Companies, Inc. announced that a subsidiary has entered into turnkey contracts for the construction of two ultra-deepwater drillships with a cost of approximately $605 million each. The drillshi... |
| 5/17/2011 - Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. announced that a subsidiary of the Company has entered into two term drilling contracts with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. The contracts, which will utilize Diamond O... |
| 3/10/2011 - Noble Corporation announced that it has been awarded contracts for six of its jackup units with Pemex Exploracion y Produccion (Pemex) in Mexico. Pending execution of the contracts, the units are expe... |
