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list of oilfield service companies

Maersk Drilling

Headquarters: Esplanaden
Founded: 2009
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

16,438

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Maersk Drilling is

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Maersk Drilling, also known as The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S, was the drilling-rig operator of Maersk. It was based in Lyngby, Denmark. Established in 1972, the company was a Nasdaq Copenhagen–listed company with the ticket name 'DRLCO'.
In November 2021, it was announced that Maersk Drilling would merge with Noble Corporation and that the combined company would be called Noble Corporation, with a valuation of £2.6 billion. The merger was completed on October 3, 2022.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: list of oilfield service companies
Legal form: aktieselskab
Country of registration: Denmark
Headquarters: Esplanaden
Formed in: —
Founded: 2009
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Listed on: —
Ticker: —
ISIN
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300TPL8MOK32R0G66
Head office coordinates: 55.6878, 12.5947

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 40.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1986
Newest vessel on record: 1986
Largest vessel by tonnage: 16,438
Average tonnage: 16,438
Market share: —
Parent company: Maersk Drilling Holding
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Maersk Drilling. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Rig / offshore unit1

By flag state

Singapore1

By shipbuilder

Kanadevia Corporation1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record · Rig / offshore unit

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Maersk Guardian	8415770	Rig / offshore unit	Singapore	1986	16,438	—	84.0 m	Kanadevia Corporation

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Maersk Drilling compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Maersk Drilling is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Denmark is the country of registration for 52 commercial operators in this directory, among which Maersk Drilling ranks 20th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 122 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Denmark.

Founded in 2009, Maersk Drilling is 17 years old. This directory holds 105 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.