Seawell's historical timeline

2011
Acquired Universal Wireline to expand Seawell's Cased Hole Wireline and Slickline service offering in the United States

2010
Acquired Gray Wireline

Approved for listing on the Oslo Børs

Acquired Rig Inspection Services

Acquired Viking Intervention and created the JV Company C6 Technologies together with IKM Gruppen.

Awarded the Ekofisk contract for platform drilling.

2009
Awarded Statoil Peregrino contract for platform drilling.

Awarded Petronas contract for cased hole investigation services.

Established office in Rio de Janeiro.

Awarded the Ekofisk  contract for Wireline services.

2008
Platform drilling and rig maintenance services contract extension awarded by BP for all its platform facilities on the Norwegian continental shelf with duration of 11 years (5 years with two 3-year options).

Purchase of TecWel, provider of cased-hole detection services and tools.

Purchase of Peak Well Solutions world leader in barrier plugs and cementing valves.

Placed an order for a new North Sea spec. modular drilling rig - Streicher-designed modular rig concept.

Office established in Houston.

Acquisition of Noble's platform drilling division in UK.

2007 
October: Seawell Ltd established by spinning off Seadrill's well services division as an independent company Seawell Limited.

2006
January: Norwegian drilling contractor Smedvig acquired by Seadrill.

2005
Contract for modification of the drilling facilities on the Statfjord field, a significant part of the Stafjord Late Life Project, awarded by Statoil to Seawell Engineering.

2004
Seawell Engineering is established.

Seawell reenters the UK platform drilling market with a 4-year contract covering Shell's 12 platforms in the UK sector.

1987
Veslefrikk contract awarded by Statoil.

1981
First production drilling contract in the Nowegian sector awarded by Statoil for the Statfjord field.

1977
First production drilling contract in the UK sector, awarded by Unocal the Heather field.