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Seadrill is an offshore drilling contractor providing worldwide offshore drilling services to the oil and gas industry. Its primary business is the ownership and operation of drillships , semi-submersible rigs, and jack-up rigs for operations in shallow to ultra-deep water in both benign and harsh environments.
Smedvig started in 1915 as the shipping company Peder Smedvig Shipping Company by Peder Smedvig.Between 1917 and 1959 Smedvig was also in the canning industry. In the 1960s the company entered the oil age with investments in supply ships, oil tankers and in 1973 the first drilling rig.
Julie Johnson Robertson is an American entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is the chair of the Board of Seadrill one of the world's largest offshore drilling companies. . Previously, Robertson served as executive Chairman, chairman, President and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company from January 2018 until M
Holstein, an oil drilling platform at Green Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 100 miles from land.. Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed.
Drilling in deep waters can be performed by two main types of mobile deepwater drilling rigs: semi-submersible drilling rigs and drillships.Drilling can also be performed from a fixed-position installation such as a fixed platform, or a floating platform, such as a spar platform, a tension-leg platform, or a semi-submersible production platform.
John Fredriksen (born 10 May 1944) is a Norwegian-born Cypriot oil tanker and shipping billionaire businessman based in London. He owns the world's largest oil tanker fleet and has major interests in the offshore driller Seadrill, the fish farming company Mowi, and the dry bulk company Golden Ocean Group.
Drillship CUSS I.. The first drillship was the CUSS I, designed by Robert F. Bauer of Global Marine in 1955.The CUSS I had drilled in 400-foot-deep waters by 1957. [1] Robert F. Bauer became the first president of Global Marine in 1958.
Glomar Challenger. The Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) was an ocean drilling project operated from 1968 to 1983. The program was a success, as evidenced by the data and publications that have resulted from it.