Offshore Drilling

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What are the Energy Deals of the Day?

July 16th, 2008
What are the Energy Deals of the Day?

The answer to the title question is that the best deal in the sector of energy today is the one which is undone. However it does nor necessarily mean that the Transocean shereholders has nothing to proud of. The company has just scored fresh contract of four from Petrobras. Generally every single contract of Offshore [...]

Offshore Rig Fleet Contarct Status of ENSCO International is updated

July 16th, 2008
Offshore Rig Fleet Contarct Status of ENSCO International is updated

Offshore Rig Fleet contract status of ENSCO International report can be accessed through their oficial website. In the report of contract status of ENSCO’s offshore rig fleet includes information on The company’s estimated rig availability, contract duration or future day rates, customers or contract status.
ENSCO, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, owns and operates a modern fleet [...]

SDRL - Seadrill takes delivery of the ultra-deepwater drillship West Polaris

July 15th, 2008
SDRL - Seadrill takes delivery of the ultra-deepwater drillship West Polaris

Seadrill is pleased to report the delivery of the ultra-deepwater drillship West Polaris from Samsung Heavy Industries. The drillship will leave Korean waters tomorrow after completing fuelling and some general mobilisation activities en route to its first drilling assignment for Exxon in Brazil. West Polaris was delivered 10 days after original contract schedule with a [...]

Transocean Inc. Provides Fleet Status Report

July 10th, 2008
Transocean Inc. Provides Fleet Status Report

Transocean Inc. issued an updated fleet status report covering the company’s 137-unit offshore drilling fleet.
Drilling rig status and contract information on the company’s offshore drilling fleet has been condensed into a report titled “Transocean Fleet Status Report,” which is available through the company’s Worldwide Web address at http://www.deepwater.com. The report can be accessed from the [...]

Atwood Oceanics Announces Conditional Exercise of Option to Build Ultra-Deepwater Semisubmersible Drilling Unit With Jurong Shipyard

July 5th, 2008
Atwood Oceanics Announces Conditional Exercise of Option to Build Ultra-Deepwater Semisubmersible Drilling Unit With Jurong Shipyard

Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (Houston based International Offshore Drilling Contractor) (NYSE: ATW) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Atwood Oceanics Pacific Limited, conditionally exercised an option to construct an ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig to be built based on the Friede & Goldman Ex-D Millennium Dynamically Positioned Semisubmersible rig design with Jurong Shipyard Pte. Ltd. (”Jurong”) in [...]

Transocean Inc. Announces Contract for Transocean Marianas

July 2nd, 2008
Transocean Inc. Announces Contract for Transocean Marianas

Transocean Inc. today announced that its deepwater moored semisubmersible Transocean Marianas, capable of drilling in water depths up to 7,000 feet, has been awarded a two-year contract by a subsidiary of Eni. The contract is scheduled to commence in December 2009 following completion of the rig’s existing contract commitments in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Estimated [...]

Pride International, Inc. to Host Analyst Meeting

July 1st, 2008
Pride International, Inc. to Host Analyst Meeting

Pride International, Inc. announced it will host an Analyst Meeting on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CT. The meeting will be held at the Omni Hotel in Houston, Texas. Additional details on the meeting, including presenters, topics to be discussed and information on a live internet broadcast will be posted [...]

Goldman Upgrades Oilfield Services

June 20th, 2008
Goldman Upgrades Oilfield Services

Goldman Sachs upgraded the oilfield services sector to “Attractive” from “Neutral,” predicting strong profit growth due to greater drilling activity and high oil prices.
Analyst Charles Minervino expects earnings to grow in the double digits through 2011 as high oil prices lead to more rapid rig construction, and both drilling activity and the rates oil companies [...]

Bush Calls for More Offshore Drilling

June 19th, 2008
Bush Calls for More Offshore Drilling

President Bush urged Congress to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, saying the U.S. needs to increase its energy production. Democrats quickly rejected the idea.
“There is no excuse for delay,” the president said in a statement in the Rose Garden. With the presidential election just months away, Bush made a pointed [...]

Ensco International CFO James W. Swent exercises options for 15,000 shares

May 15th, 2008
Ensco International CFO James W. Swent exercises options for 15,000 shares

The chief financial officer of offshore drilling company Ensco International Inc. exercised options for 15,000 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC, James W. Swent III reported he exercised options for the shares Friday for $27.31 to $33.55 apiece and then sold [...]


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