Maersk orders $650 million drilling rig for Statoil job

May 31, 2012 | Contracts, North Sea & Western Europe, Rigs & Vessels

 

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Maersk Drilling has ordered a new ultra-harsh environment jack-up rig from Singapore’s Keppel for work on Statoil’s Dagny field in the North Sea, Maersk said.

“The total project cost for the rig is close to $650 million,” Maersk Drilling, a unit of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk, said in a statement.

The new rig, scheduled to be delivered at the beginning of 2015, will be built at Keppel FELS in Singapore and will be identical to the two jack-up rigs ordered in February 2011, Maersk Drilling said.

The rig is built against a $620 million firm contract with Norway’s Statoil, with the job scheduled to begin in mid-2015 and to last four years, Maersk Drilling said.