Aker Drilling
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| Public | |
| Industry | Offshore services |
| Fate | Acquired by Transocean |
| Successor | Transocean Norway Drilling AS |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Defunct | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Stavanger, Norway |
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Key people
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Geir Atle Sjøberg (CEO) |
| Services | Offshore drilling |
| Parent | Transocean |
| Website | www |
Aker Drilling, was a Norwegian drilling rig operation company; based in Stavanger, Norway and majority owned by the Aker Group. It was listed on under the ticker - 'AKD'.
In October 2011, it was amalgamated into global operations of Transocean and renamed to Transocean Norway Drilling AS, after the completion of the US$1.43 billion acquisition of Aker Drilling by Transocean Ltd.
There was previously in the 1970s a different company called Aker Drilling, also part of the Aker Group, which later became part of Fred. Olsen Energy.
The history of the 2005 established Aker drilling is as follows;
Aker drilling was established in 2005, as part of the Aker Group controlled by the Norwegian billionaire Kjell Inge Røkke. The purpose of the new company was to place contracts for its two new-building semi-submersible drilling rigs. The two Aker H-6e type 6th generation semi-submersibles - Aker Barents and Aker Spitsbergen, were designed by Aker Solutions and being built at Aker Stord AS shipyard.
In December 2005, Aker drilling went public and was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. In 2006, with the Aker Drilling’s management team in place, the company set up its head office in Stavanger, Norway. The same year, it secured long term contracts with Statoil ASA and Aker Exploration ASA (later merged with Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA).
In 2007, it was taken off the exchange to avoid a takeover by billionaire John Fredriksen’s Seadrill, which made a voluntary offer for all outstanding shares in Aker Drilling. Aker ASA, through its wholly owned subsidiary Aker Capital ASA, made a voluntary acquisition of a majority stake in Aker drilling, which subsequently led to the de-listing of the company in March 2008.
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