Songa Offshore, the Cyprus-headquartered owner of offshore drilling rigs, announced that its Songa Mercur rig is not far from spudding its first well offshore Cuba. The company announced in its fleet status report that the rig has set sail from Trinidad to Cuba during the first week of November. Upon arrival to the Caribbean country’s [...]
Spanish oil titan Repsol on Friday announced it would plug and abandon an exploration well offshore Cuba. Repsol’s well in Cuba’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) was drilled by the Scarabeo 9, a 6th generation semi submersible drilling rig. The Saipem-owned rig failed to find hydrocarbons, and Repsol’s spokesman told BusinesWeek that the result is disappointing [...]
Chinese-built semi-submersible rig, Scarabeo 9, has, after a long journey, arrived at its final destination, Cuba. The rig, one of the largest in the world, has been leased by the Spanish oil company Repsol, which hopes to unlock Cuba’s allegedly enormous deepwater oil reserves. Cuba estimates that its offshore fields hold approximately 20 billion barrels [...]
![Arrival of Scarabeo 9 Drilling Rig in Cuban Waters Put Off Once Again]()
Delivery of a Chinese-built drilling rig that will open the first full-scale exploration for oil in Cuban waters looks unlikely until at … Reported by: Jeff Franks (Reuters) Source: Reuters, October 14, 2011;
![Singapore: Keppel Completes Scarabeo 9 for Saipem]()
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver Scarabeo 9, a 6th generation ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig, to Saipem S.p.A (Saipem) on time and with no lost time incidents. A significant part of Keppel FELS’ workscope on Scarabeo 9 involved the completion and commissioning of marine and drilling systems onboard. The rig was [...]
![Singapore: Keppel FELS Secures New Contracts Worth US$101 million]()
Keppel FELS Limited has secured new contracts worth about US$101 million (S$134 million) to complete and refurbish two semisubmersible drilling rigs respectively for Saipem S.p.A and Ensco plc. Mr Wong Kok Seng, Executive Director of Keppel FELS said, “Rig completions and refurbishments are highly complex projects by nature, because every vessel that comes into our [...]
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