ENSCO has entered into a drilling contract with two large independent oil companies to provide a new ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig, to be named ENSCO 8501. ENSCO International ...
The driller had long been a strong proponent of building rigs only on the strength of signed contracts. However, company boss Carl Thorne believed that schedule and price made the project attractive ...
The second in a series of seven deep-water semi-subs to be built by Keppel for Ensco, the Ensco 8501 will be chartered by Noble Energy and Nexen for operations in the Gulf of Mexico when it is ...