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