Petrobras has signed 15-year charter contracts with Odebrecht and Etesco to operate nine drillships that will be built in Brazil

QEP Resources will use a combination of cash on hand and draws on a $1.5 billion revolving credit facility to fund its $1.38 billion acquisition of a Williston Basin oil shale property.

SBM Offshore and its joint venture partners QGOG Constellation and Mitsubishi Corporation have raised a $1.05 billion facility to finance the construction of the Cidade be Ilhabela FPSO.