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In May 2004, the company sold its worldwide land drilling assets to Precision Drilling for $316.5 million. [5] [6] In August 2004, one of the company's rigs sank in the Mediterranean Sea about 25 miles offshore Egypt after a fire broke out on the rig. [7] In June 2006, the company contracted with Saudi Aramco for 4 of its jackup rigs. [8]
Global Marine, a drilling contractor which merged with Santa Fe International Corporation to form GlobalSantaFe Corporation. Now part of Transocean. Glomar Challenger, the drillship used for the Deep Sea Drilling Project; Glomar Explorer, a large salvage vessel built by the CIA
The Diamond Offshore story is somewhat less complex. A subsidiary of Loews , Houston-based Diamond operates 44 offshore rigs, including 32 semi-submersibles, seven jackups, and five dynamically ...
G-BJVX, a Norwich-based commercial Sikorsky S-76A helicopter operated by Bristow Helicopters, crashed in the evening of 16 July 2002 in the southern North Sea while it was making a ten-minute flight between the gas production platform Clipper and the drilling rig Global Santa Fe Monarch, after which it was to return to Norwich Airport.
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 ...
This year, Sable Offshore Corp., a Houston-based energy company, purchased the mothballed equipment and announced plans to restart oil extraction by the end of the year — including the failed ...
Noxal is a deep underwater oil field in the Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico that was once believed to contain up to 10 billion barrels (1.6 billion cubic metres) of crude oil.
On 16 July 2002, G-BJVX, a Sikorsky S-76A helicopter operated by Norwich-based Bristow Helicopters, crashed into the southern North Sea while it was making a ten-minute flight between the gas production platform Clipper and the drilling rig Global Santa Fe Monarch, after which it was to return to Norwich Airport. The 22-year-old helicopter was ...