While oil drillers in US shale basins are starting to see business come back, their offshore brethren will have to wait for prices to surge well above $60 a barrel. (Bloomberg) – While oil drillers in U.S. shale basins are starting to see business come back, their offshore brethren will have to wait for prices to surge well above $60 a barrel. U.S. offshore operators like Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. and Atwood Oceanics Inc. are down more than 15 percent in the last month, as companies focus on onshore oil that reaps better returns. With oil trading near $53 a barrel, firms are looking toward booming plays like the Permian Basin in West Texas and the Scoop and Stack formations in Oklahoma, according to Marc Edwards, Diamond Offshore’s chief executive officer. “From an operator perspective, they still have choices as to how they deploy their capital. And, of course, […]