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Services (9 each), Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (8), and Petromar (7).
Including several “subsidiary” classifications, 48 owners are listed
this year.
For geographic locations, ODS-Petrodata’s October
Offshore Rig Locator lists activity/locations of 389 jack-ups. For
the worldwide competitive jack-up fleet, of a total supply of 322
rigs, marketed supply was 303 and demand was 273, for a
utilization of 90%. As for jack-up locations, the Rig Locator shows
the US Gulf of Mexico to be the most active, with 121 units in
drilling mode or not working. The next largest jack-up user is the
Arabian Sea/Persian Gulf area with 55 units. The North Sea/NW
Europe area has 32, Mexico’s Campeche Bay (28), SE Asia (27),
India (26), West Africa (25), Far East (16) the
Mediterranean/Black Sea (13), the Red Sea/Gulf of Suez (12), the
Caspian Sea (9), Brazil (8), and Central/South America “other”
(7). Five other areas had 2 to 4 jack-ups each.

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