On Tuesday, August 21, 2018, offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Partners (SDLP) announced its second quarter 2018 earnings results. As is the case with all of the companies in the industry, Seadrill Partners has been struggling with challenging conditions in the industry. In that light then, these results were fairly good and were certainly an improvement over the first quarter. The company's unitholders should therefore be pleased with these results, even if they were perhaps not as good as they would have been in a better environment.
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