The official moratorium on deepwater drilling in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was lifted in October 2010, but has been replaced with what can only be described as a quasi moratorium as new permits continue to languish in a byzantine ...

Barron's has published a brief article making a bullish case for Noble Corporation. Jay Palmer, writing for Barron's, believes that Noble is well positioned for a world in which deepwater drilling will account for a growing share of production as ...

In this article, we profile Diamond Offshore, one of the leading companies in the deepwater drilling industry. In previous articles, we focused on two companies in the offshore drilling industry with lower risk profiles. Both Noble Corporation and Ensco plc ...