The Deepwater Nautilus Team has set another world water-depth record for an offshore drilling rig operating in moored configuration at 8,951 feet of water in Lloyd block 399 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico ...

SUGAR LAND, Texas, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) today announced that the Company's semisubmersible drilling unit Noble Amos Runner ...

The UK North Sea is becoming a happy hunting ground for a Norwegian offshore drilling company with a fast-growing backlog for its deep-water drilling units. Oslo-listed Dolphin Drilling has a ...

Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras has launched a fresh tender aimed at chartering an anchor-moored semi-submersible drilling rig, following two failed attempts to contract such a unit ...

Diamond Offshore provides its new fleet status report. Semi-subs Ocean Apex and Ocean Endeavor get more jobs. Semi-sub Ocean Confidence heads to the scrapyard. Diamond Offshore continues to score ...

Protests of Shell Oil’s mooring of the Polar Pioneer continued on Monday, with protestors forming a blockade at Terminal 5. Those protests followed Saturday’s on-water protests against Shell’s plans ...

A drilling rig off the coast near St Leonards has caught the eye of many locals and left them wondering why it is there. Now the explanation has been revealed. But the Ocean Onyx rig is now ...

(Bucharest, Romania-AP) August 22, 2006 - A Romanian oil rig that's been moored off the coast of Iran since last October has been shot at and occupied by Iranian troops. A spokesman for the company ...

Minerals Management Service (MMS) recently issued new requirements to the offshore oil and gas industry to ensure the survival of jack-up drilling rigs and mobile offshore drilling units (MODU's) ...

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Q2 2019 Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Thank ...

Royal Dutch Shell has dropped plans to continue exploratory drilling off Alaska’s North Slope, but that doesn’t mean some of its fleet of two dozen vessels won’t return to Seattle. A city hearing ...

A boat that was moored to an oil rig platform in Cook Inlet sank Thursday, prompting at least 14 people to evacuate from the rig. The Coast Guard said it received a mayday call early Thursday from the ...