Pacific Drilling is an offshore ultra-deepwater drilling company and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as PACD.
The company was founded in 2006 by Idan Ofer, a billionaire Israeli business magnate.
It is headquartered in Luxembourg and employs a workforce of 1,301.
It operates drillships for exploration internationally for ultra-deepwater offshore drilling. In 2011, one ship called the Pacific Bora was active in the Agbami Field near Nigeria. Other ships are active in the Offshore oil and gas in the US Gulf of Mexico and in Brazil.