
Odfjell Drilling has been awarded a significant contract award with BP for the provision of a new build, semi-submersible drilling unit for use in the UK’s West of Shetland region. The name of the rig will be Deepsea Aberdeen.
The new unit will be involved in drilling in the Schiehallion and Loyal fields and will form a key part of the Quad 204* development. The full contract, which is subject to approval by the Quad 204 Partnership, will have a fixed duration of 7 years and is due to start in Q4 2014.
The new state of the art sixth generation rig will be built in South Korea by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).
Deepsea Aberdeen is of the enhanced GVA7500 harsh environment design and will be a sister rig to the Deepsea Atlantic and Deepsea Stavanger previously delivered from DSME.
Construction engineering has commenced and keel laying is scheduled for March 2013.
*The Quad 204 project is a joint venture to re-develop the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, West of Shetland, in the UK. BP is operator and owns 36.3%, with other interests as follows: Shell (36.3%); Hess Ltd (12.90%); Statoil (UK) Ltd (4.84%); OMV (UK) Ltd. (4.84%) and Murphy Petroleum (4.84%).¨
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