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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. It provides a contract-based ...
Helix Energy Solutions Inc., known as Cal Dive International prior to 2006, is an American oil and gas services company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company is a global provider of offshore services in well intervention and ROV operations of new and existing oil and gas fields .
Persistent's Pingala-Aryabhata campus in Pune. Persistent Systems was founded in 1990 by Anand Deshpande, a former Hewlett-Packard employee, with an investment of $21,000. In 2000, Intel Capital invested $1 million in the company for a 3.5% stake. [4]
The new company was called Transocean Offshore. The new company began building massive drilling operations with drills capable of going to 10,000 feet (as opposed to 3,000 feet at the time) and operating two drill operations on the same ship. Its first ship, Discoverer Enterprise, cost nearly US$430 million and was 834 ft (254 m). [8]
In 1939, after working as a Sales Engineer with Reed Roller Bit Company in Houston, Eddie Chiles founded the Western Company of North America in Fort Worth, Texas. He started the company with two trucks and three employees. Western served the petroleum industry with technical services required in the discovery and production of oil and gas.
EMAS was founded in 1992 by Mr. Lee Kian Soo. Headquartered in Singapore, [6] EMAS is now an offshore service provider, with offices in 16 locations across 5 continents. 1992 Founded. Incorporated EMAS Offshore to provide management and operation of offshore support vessels. 2003 Launch of Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Singapore [7]
Bennett Offshore, L.L.C., [3] is an independent naval architecture, design and consulting firm founded in 1997 by William T. Bennett, Jr., to deliver engineering services to the offshore industry. Bennett headquarters are located in Houston, Texas , and the company has an engineering office in New Orleans, Louisiana .
The corporate predecessor, Kirby Industries, Inc., was founded in 1921. [4] The Kirby Corporation was founded in 1969 as a subsidiary of that company called Kirby Exploration Company, Inc., and was spun off in 1976.