Diamond Offshore Drilling has finally decided to rebuild the cold-stacked North Sea veteran rig Ocean Voyager in Singapore at a cost of some $370million.
Noble Corporation has secured a three-year contract worth some $677million with Anadarko for use of its new-build drillship Noble Bob Douglas, one of four ultra-deepwater vessels that the company has under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Ulsan, South Korea.
Vantage Drilling has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the ultra-deepwater drillship Dragonquest from Valencia Drilling in a deal worth some $164million.
Norwegian company Sevan Marine can press ahead with building two more of its innovative drilling rigs thanks to winning contracts worth more than $1.5billion - one with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) of India, the other with Petrobras of Brazil.
