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Construction Success of West Orion in Jurong Shipyard |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 The third from the series of four turnkey ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs built by Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard for Seadrill Limited, is on track for delivery in early second quarter of 2010 following its official naming.
The rig was christened “West Orion” by Lady Sponsor Mrs Ingfrid
Gjengedal, the wife of Mr Alf Ragnar Lovdal, Senior Vice President of
Seadrill’s Tender Rig Division, during a ceremony on February 27, 2010
in the presence of key representatives from Seadrill and Jurong
Shipyard.
West Orion echoes the success of sister rigs West Sirius and West Taurus
which were delivered by Jurong Shipyard in 2008. The yard demonstrated
its strong turnkey expertise in semi-submersible construction by being
the first to deliver on-time a total turnkey semi-submersible rig, the
West Sirius, to Seadrill in March 2008. The next turnkey
semi-submersible rig, the West Taurus, was delivered one week ahead of
schedule in November 2008.
West Orion is one of twelve Friede and Goldman (F&G) ExD Class
semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drilling units built by Jurong
Shipyard. Six of these F&G semisubmersible units had been
successfully delivered by the yard. The dynamic-positioning
semi-submersible is engineered for deep drilling capabilities of up to
37,500 feet in dynamic positioning mode in ultra-deepwaters of up to
10,000 feet.
Upon delivery, West Orion will commence a six-year contract with
Petrobras for development drilling operations offshore Brazil. West
Taurus, the second rig delivered to Seadrill Jurong Shipyard, is also on
a six-year charter with Petrobras.
Mr Per Wullf, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of
Seadrill Management AS, said: “West Orion is the third consecutive
on-time, on-budget semisubmersible drilling rig that Jurong Shipyard has
constructed for Seadrill after the West Sirius and West Taurus. Both
rigs are working very well at their locations in the Gulf of Mexico and
Brazil.”
“Over the years, Seadrill’s investments in new drilling units have been
significant and our repeat orders with Jurong Shipyard are signs of
confidence and reflects our strong commitment to this excellent yard.
More importantly, the previous rigs delivered from Jurong Shipyard are
first of its class and working exceptionally well. We are very satisfied
with Jurong Shipyard’s performance and quality of work and look forward
to mutual success in the future.”
Mr Wong Weng Sun, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sembcorp
Marine and Managing Director of Jurong Shipyard, said: “The turnkey
construction success of West Orion, our third from the series of four
ultra-deepwater Seadrill semi-submersible rigs, is a testament of the
strong synergy and shared commitment between Jurong Shipyard and
Seadrill in achieving high quality standards and workplace safety and
health excellence in our operations. Our profound thanks to Seadrill for
their vote of confidence and their trust in us.”
Source: Seadrill, Jurong Shipyard
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