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Atwood Oceanics, Inc. was an offshore drilling contractor headquartered in Houston, Texas.In October 2017, the company was acquired by Ensco plc. [1]The company owned and operated 4 ultra-deepwater drillships, 2 ultra-deepwater semisubmersibles (can drill in water up to 12,000' deep), 2 deepwater semisubmersibles, and 5 high-specification jackup rigs.
Atwood Oceanics is down 18% and Seadrill is down more than 22%, while Noble Corp and Transocean haven't fared much better. Even massively diversified 2 Offshore Drillers, 2 Reasons to Buy
The possible offshore lease sale became an issue in the 2009 race for governor of Virginia. [43] The winner, Bob McDonnell, urged during his tenure that the sale take place. [44] In May 2010, President Obama announced his decision to cancel the offshore Virginia lease sale, in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. [45]
The industry’s current offshore drilling interest has been concentrated on a small sliver of water near the eastern Gulf but still within the central Gulf area, closer to Louisiana than to Florida.
Offshore drilling began in California in 1896, when operators in the Summerland Oil Field in Santa Barbara County followed the field into the ocean by drilling from piers built out over the ocean. Leasing California state seabed is controlled by the State Lands Commission, which halted further leasing of state offshore tracts after the Santa ...
In the middle of rehashing the same short-term weakness story in the deepwater drilling sector, Atwood Oceanics actually admitted that the weakness in the market was only impacting the old rigs.
Valaris Limited (previously ENSCO-Rowan plc) is an offshore drilling contractor headquartered in Houston, Texas, and incorporated in Bermuda. It is the largest offshore drilling and well drilling company in the world, and owns 52 rigs, including 36 offshore jackup rigs , 11 drillships , and 5 semi-submersible platform drilling rigs .
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, offshore drilling contractor Atwood Oceanics (NYS: ATW) has ...