Offshore Drilling Companies: 50 Offshore Drilling Companies To
Get You Started
by Calvin Loh
Are you looking for a list of offshore drilling companies
because you are looking for a job in an offshore oil rig? Have
you tried the big boys like Shell and BP, etc? No results, or
don't want to try them for some reason?
Besides the obvious list of big boys like Shell and BP, you can
also look for offshore drilling companies which do wildcatting
or provide sub-contracting offshore oil drilling services to the
major players. There are potentially hundreds of smaller
companies which do this. Rather than cover the whole spectrum of
finding oil, drilling for it and then refining and distributing
the oil, these relatively small companies (for the oil and gas
industry) concentrate on providing offshore drilling services.
Some of them were formed during the last slump in oil prices by
far-sighted investors with deep pockets, buying up equipment for
pennies on the dollar. Many more were popped up just before the
current boom in oil prices, or just recently to cater for the
spike in demand for oil drilling services.
Here is a list of 50 offshore drilling companies to get you
started:
Nabors Industries
Transocean
Diamond
Offshore
Rowan Companies
Schlumberger
Stena Drilling
Tesco Drilling
Transocean Sedco
Prosafe ASA
Abbot Group
Acteon
Akita Drilling
Altinex
Atwood Oceanics
Baker Hughes
China Oilfield Services
Crosco Drilling
Dolphin Drilling
Egyptian Drilling
Company
Franklin Howard International
Fred. Olsen Energy
Geoservices
Global Marine Drilling
GlobalSantaFe
IKM Subsea Design
Japan Drilling Co
KCA Deutag
Drilling
Maersk Contractors
Metzke Engineering
Noble
Drilling
Pajak Engineering
Parker Drilling
PetroMena
Reamco
Seadrill
Smedvig
Smith International
ENSCO International
BLAKE Offshore
CDIS
Coastal
Drilling Company
Crosco
Extended Reach Drilling
Frigstad Offshore
Jindal Drilling & Industries
KCA
DEUTAG Drilling
Marine Drilling Companies
National
Drilling Services
Neptune Drilling
Ocean Rig
Do note that these are just 50 out of hundreds, with many more
new companies formed each month to cater for the growing demand
of the oil rush. As the entire oil and gas industry is very
fast-moving right now, there is no guarantee that all the
companies will still be around. After all, the major players
like Shell will almost certainly try to buy them up to secure
their own supply of oil rigs and crew. Some of these companies
provide both onshore and offshore services and may even provide
pipelining services, so be sure to make it clear in your cover
letter and resume/cv.
Not all of the companies have websites or email. You may need to
do some digging to find their snail mail or offline address so
that you can send them you cover letter and resume through the
post office.
To get an offshore drilling job, you can go to the major
players, or you can try the smaller specialist offshore
drilling companies. The major players are of course more
stable (at least during the oil boom). The smaller companies, on
the other hand, provide more opportunity for advancement if you
are bright and hardworking.
