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NOCs assemble, employ rig fleets
… jack ups, 4 semisubmersibles, and 6 platform rigs . Four of these rigs were drilling in ..... one jack up, three semisubs), one platform rig involved in production, and all the ..... jack up); Nabors Offshore Inc. (1 platform rig ); Noble Drilling Services Inc …
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DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: South America drilling pace picking up speed
… July. Petrex SA, a subsidiary of Saipem SPA, has four platform rigs ready-stacked and land rigs drilling in the Amazon and ..... company Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) is using platform Rig M 10. ENAP announced on Aug. 8 that it would invest an additional …
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DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: Companies report positive first-quarter 2007 results
… drilling tenders, 3 inland barges, and 1 platform rig (Table 1). Click here to enlarge ..... Mexico. Nabors Offshore is building one platform rig (Super Sundowner XX). Several drillers ..... well service rigs, and 65 offshore platform rigs . Nabors will take possession of 58 …
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Worldwide drilling surges ahead
… significant damage. Helmerich & Payne’s platform Rig 201 was smashed on the Mars TLP in Mississippi ..... KCA Deutag launched a new 4,600-hp platform rig in January. The rig was assembled in ..... Parker sold five jack ups and four platform rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to Hercules Assets …
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Reed: U.S. rig fleet indicators on the rise
… two newly built rigs during this time, a barge rig and a platform rig . The supply of silicon-controlled rectifier/electric ..... semisubmersibles and drill ships) increased by six to 28. Offshore platform rigs increased by three to 42. Bottom-supported rigs (jack …
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US drilling continues climb to 1,158 rotary rigs
… utilization rate was 92.1% compared with 92.2% for last week. ODS-Petrodata also reported 248 offshore platform rigs under contract worldwide for an 80% utilization rate. The offshore platform rig count was the same as last week.
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Drilling Market Focus: Singapore leads in current jack up construction
… and transferred three older ENSCO rigs, a jack up and two platform rigs , to Keppel FELS. Its sister rig, the ENSCO 106 jack up ..... It operates two jack ups (Tam Dao; Cuu Long) and one platform rig through Russo-Vietnamese joint venture Vietsovpetro. The …
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INDUSTRY BRIEFS
… Corp., both of Houston. Hercules Rig owns seven jack up rigs and three self-erecting platform rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as a platform rig on bareboat charter to a firm in Brazil. Hercules Offshore, a drilling contractor, is …
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SIX LAND RIGS DESTINED FOR COLOMBIA
… expected to cost $7 million/rig. Elsewhere, a new H&P platform rig , Rig 108, began operations last month under a 3 year contract ..... Including the new Rig 108, H&P also operates nine offshore platform rigs and 35 land rigs in the U.S. PARKER RIGS Two Parker rigs …
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SHELL POISED FOR GULF DEEPWATER INSTALLATION
… drilling services contract, H&P also plans to construct a platform rig for Ram-Powell TLP That unit, Rig 203, is to be built ..... Upon completion of Rigs 201 and 203, H&P will have 10 platform rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico and three off California …
