Cliffs Drilling Company

Cliffs Drilling Company is an international oil service and engineering company engaged in providing contract drilling services on both a turnkey and daywork basis, mobile offshore production units and well engineering and management services. Under daywork drilling contracts, the company provides a drilling rig with personnel to operates. The company's domestic operations are concentrated in Texas/Louisiana Gulf Coast region and its foreign operations are concentrated in Venezuela and Middle East. The company currently owns and operates 30 drilling rigs, including 16 jack up drilling rigs, 11 land drilling rigs and 3 platform drilling rigs. It operates 7 jack up drilling rigs in international locations, including 2 jack up rigs in each of Venezuela, Qatar and Trinidad, and one jack up drilling rig in Mexico.