Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Estimated Useful Lives Of The Related Assets

Buildings and improvements	3	to	40	years
Marine vessels and equipment	5	to	25	years
Machinery and equipment	2	to	25	years
Automobiles, trucks, tractors and trailers	3	to	7	years
Furniture and fixtures	2	to	10	years

Summary Of Activity Of Goodwill

	Drilling	Subsea and	Onshore		Subsea and
	Products and	Well	Completion	Production	Technical
	Services	Enhancement	Services	Services	Solutions	Marine	Total
Balance, December 31, 2010	$       139,463	$       437,684	$                   -	$                   -	$                   -	$         10,853	$       588,000
Acquisition activities	-	3,563	-	-	-	-	3,563
Disposition activities	-	-	-	-	-	(519)	(519)
Reduction in value of asset	-	-	-	-	-	(10,334)	(10,334)
Additional consideration paid					-
for prior acquisitions	1,000	-	-	-	-	-	1,000
Foreign currency translation adjustment	(35)	(296)	-	-	-	-	(331)
Balance, December 31, 2011	$       140,428	$       440,951	$                   -	$                   -	$                   -	$                   -	$       581,379
Acquisition activities	-	23,452	1,193,486	738,709	-	-	1,955,647
Disposition activities	-	(9,741)	-	-	-	-	(9,741)
Allocation of goodwill from change in
internal reporting structure	-	(454,574)	224,564	138,994	91,016	-	-
Additional consideration paid
for prior acquisitions	3,000	-	-	-	-	-	3,000
Foreign currency translation adjustment	1,519	(88)	-	349	-	-	1,780
Balance, December 31, 2012	$       144,947	$                   -	$    1,418,050	$       878,052	$         91,016	$                   -	$    2,532,065

Composition Of Intangible And Other Long-term Assets

	December 31, 2012			December 31, 2011
	Gross	Accumulated	Net	Gross	Accumulated	Net
	Amount	Amortization	Balance	Amount	Amortization	Balance
Customer relationships	$    348,160	$     (25,357)	$      322,803	$      23,707	$       (6,144)	$      17,563
Tradenames	53,063	(7,017)	46,046	18,005	(2,706)	15,299
Non-compete agreements	2,938	(1,062)	1,876	1,697	(1,126)	571
Debt issuance costs	63,829	(18,948)	44,881	41,449	(10,039)	31,410
Deferred compensation
plan assets	11,343	-	11,343	10,598	-	10,598
Escrowed cash	50,304	-	50,304	50,196	-	50,196
Restricted cash and
cash equivalents	-	-	-	785,280	-	785,280
Long-term assets held as
major replacement spares	7,241	-	7,241	13,806	-	13,806
Other	26,676	(764)	25,912	6,018	(605)	5,413
Total	$    563,554	$     (53,148)	$      510,406	$    950,756	$     (20,620)	$    930,136

Summary Of The Activity For Company's Decommissioning Liabilities

	Years Ended
	December 31,
	2012	2011
Decommissioning liabilities, December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively	$      123,176	$      117,716
Liabilities acquired and incurred	4,620	-
Liabilities settled	(4,660)	(504)
Accretion	4,670	6,752
Revision in estimated liabilities	(34,753)	(788)
Total decommissioning liabilities, December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively	93,053	123,176
Less: current portion of decommissioning liabilities as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively	-	14,956
Long-term decommissioning liabilities, December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively	$        93,053	$      108,220