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<LEGEND>
This schedule  contains summary financial  information  extracted from the March
31, 1999  financial  statements and is qualified in its entirety by reference to
such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>                        ENSCO INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
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