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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
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 ...
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. [1]
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.
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 ...
Vetco was the result of a consortium consisting of the private equity firms Candover, 3i and JP Morgan Partners, which took over ABB's oil and gas division, ABB Offshore Systems. These companies have served the upstream oil and gas industry since 1903 and are suppliers of products, systems, and services for onshore and offshore drilling. Vetco ...
An oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Getty Images) An energy industry researcher says, despite both praise and criticism of President Joe Biden’s executive order banning offshore ...