Coinciding with parent company Keppel Corporation’s 45th anniversary this year, Keppel FELS has delivered the 45th KFELS B Class jackup rig since it launched the design in 2000. These KFELS B Class rigs make up more than 30% of the total jackups completed globally since 2000. The rig was delivered to Arabian Drilling Company (ADC) 14 days [...]
Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) has on behalf of the partners in the Ivar Aasen project, exercised its contractual right to extend the contract for the newbuild ultra harsh environment jack-up, XL Enhanced 2, by two years. Consequently, the duration of the firm contract is now five years. The estimated value of the two-year [...]
Discovery Offshore S.A. announced today that the due date of the final shipyard installment on the Discovery Triumph to Keppel FELS Limited has been extended to 1 August 2013. Discovery Offshore is a Luxembourg-based public limited liability company incorporated on 12 January 2011 for the purpose of owning new ultra high specification jackup drilling rigs. [...]
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered its first KFELS Super A Class jackup rig to the Luxembourg-headquartered Discovery Offshore S.A. Discovery Offshore, a drilling contractor focused on ultra high-specification jackups is managed by NASDAQ-listed Hercules Offshore, Inc. Named Discovery Triumph at a ceremony yesterday, the first KFELS Super A Class jack-up has been delivered 46 [...]
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard has secured a contract to build a jack-up drilling rig from BOT Lease Co., Ltd (“BOTL”), a leasing company of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ which is under the umbrella of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. The contract price is US$220.5 million (excluding cost of BOTL’s project management team and pre-operations cost). [...]
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has secured a US$596 million contract for a newbuild ultra-high specification jack-up rig with option for an additional unit for use in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea from Moble Corporation. Representing the most advanced and versatile of its kind in the industry, this jack-up rig will be [...]
Keppel FELS Limited has delivered the KFELS Super B Class jackup rig, HAKURYU-11, to Japan Drilling Company (JDC) on time and with a perfect safety record. HAKURYU-11 will be chartered to the Con Son joint venture led by Petrovietnam. Built to Keppel’s advanced KFELS Super B Class design , it has been developed with several [...]
International drilling contractor, KCA Deutag, has announced it has signed a contract with Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Bhd of Malaysia for the provision of drilling operations, management and maintenance services on the Perisai Pacific 101 jack-up. The agreement also calls for KCA Deutag to train, coach and mentor National Malaysian management and crews. Perisai is an [...]
Celtic Design Consultants are to exhibit at All Energy 2013 event in Aberdeen. They will be showing their innovative multi purpose jack up design. A working model of the design, named CDC Heron, and described as the ultimate offshore maintenance & intervention vessel for Oil & Gas and Renewables, will be on the stand, A57. According [...]
Keppel FELS has delivered a second KFELS B Class jackup rig to offshore Mexican oil field services company, Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro (Oro Negro). Named Laurus at Keppel FELS today, the rig was delivered eleven days early and with a perfect safety record. Laurus is the second of two high-specification jackup rigs that [...]
