Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Southeastern Drilling Company
Parallel form(s) of name
- Sedco
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1947-1984
History
Founded in Dallas, TX, USA by Bill Clemens, who later became governor of the state, Sedco drilled for oil both in the USA and abroad, including maintaining a partnership with Zapata Off-Shore Company, where future American president, George H. W. Bush, acted as CEO. In 1958, Sedco branched to Iran, shortly after Prime Minister Mossadegh was imprisoned, and operated there until the Iranian Revolution in 1977.