On Tuesday, under the heading “Driving Innovation through Collaboration in the Rig Market”, Statoil revealed the first concepts competing for its CAT-I unit – A drillship designed for arctic areas. Inocean is one of three players participating in the ongoing feasibility study. “It’s a stimulating and demanding project and an enormous inspiration for our engineers [...]
Seadrill has signed a contract with LLOG Bluewater Holdings, LLC, for employment of the newbuild drillship, West Neptune, offshore Gulf of Mexico. The contract duration is a minimum of three years plus an option for a one-year extension at mutually agreed rates. The potential revenue for the primary contract term is approximately US$662 million. The [...]
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Jasper Offshore announces that the Jasper Explorer drillship has arrived at Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo and is currently preparing for commencement of drilling operations. In January Jasper signed a contract with CNOOC Congo SA for the deployment of the Pelican Class self propelled drillship. Under the contract, the Jasper Explorer will drill [...]
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Pacific Drilling S.A. announced that a subsidiary of Total S.A. has elected to exercise a one-year option to extend the firm contract term for the Pacific Scirocco to January 2015. The contract provides for a further option, to be exercised at the client’s discretion by April 7, 2014, which could result in two additional years [...]
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Jon Erik Borgen, CEO of Inocean, is one of the speakers at the 5th Annual Offshore Drilling Rigs Conference in Singapore. The conference takes place 8-11 April. Mr Borgen will open day 2 with his presentation of Dalian Developer – “The World’s Largest Ultra-Deepwater Drillship with a Unique Design for Efficient and Sustainable Drilling Operation”. [...]
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ONGC’s chartered-hired ultra deepwater drillship DDKG1 has set a world record for drilling well in deepest water depth by an offshore drilling rig. The rig DDKG1 has spudded well NA7-1 in exploratory block KG-DWN-2004/1 in east coast India at a water depth of 3165m (10,385 feet) on Jan 23, 2013. Thereafter it successfully lowered and [...]
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Jasper Investments Limited announced that its subsidiary, Jasper Drilling Pte Ltd, on 21st January 2013 signed a contract with CNOOC Congo SA for the deployment of the drillship, Jasper Explorer. Under the contract, the Jasper Explorer will drill two firm wells plus one option well in offshore Republic of Congo, West Africa. The program duration [...]
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Pacific Drilling S.A. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary exercised an option to construct its eighth ultra-deepwater drillship with Samsung Heavy Industries. “We are extremely pleased to announce the order of our eighth ultra-deepwater drillship,” stated Pacific Drilling CEO Chris Beckett. “The strong market for deepwater drilling, attractive construction cost, strength of relationships with our preferred [...]
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Vantage Drilling Company (“Vantage”) announced that it has received a conditional letter of award for its newbuild drillship the Tungsten Explorer to work in West Africa. The award is for a period of up to four years commencing in mid 2014. The contract has a minimum duration of two years, while the customer has four [...]
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Noble Corporation announced that it is working cooperatively and diligently to rectify deficiencies and maintenance issues raised by the U.S. Coast Guard during a recent inspection of the Company’s drillship, the Noble Discoverer. The inspection followed a successful drilling season in offshore Alaska. The Coast Guard has identified several components and systems aboard the Company’s [...]
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