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Samsung to build two semisubmersible rigs
Norway's Eastern Drilling ASA has let a contract to Samsung Heavy Industries, Seoul, to build two $465 million semisubmersible drilling rigs.
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Pride Carlos Walter begins Petrobras contract
… June 27 -- Pride International Inc.'s newly built semisubmersible rig , the Pride Carlos Walter, began working off Brazil ..... formed to build, own, and operate four Amethyst-class semisubmersible rigs to work for Petrobras offshore Brazil. But construction …
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Brazil seeks semi production rigs
Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA has called for bids on production semisubmersible rigs for Albacora and Marlim fields in the offshore Campos basin. Petrobras Exploration & Production Director Joao Carlos de Luca said …
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Offshore rig market getting tighter off Northwest Europe
… reckons there are 44 semisubmersible rigs and 35 jack ups currently ..... and third-generation semisubmersible rigs are currently chartered ..... charter of Transocean 8 semisubmersible rig from Trans-ocean ..... The cost for a newbuild semisubmersible rig would be $200-300 …
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MARKET WATCH Energy prices retreat in profit-taking
… New York. Two of Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.'s semisubmersible rigs , the Ocean Saratoga and the Ocean Star, broke free ..... Sedita said. Transocean Inc.'s Transocean Marianas semisubmersible rig sustained damage to its mooring system and drifted 140 …
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PLENTY OF ACTION LEFT IN NORTHERN EUROPE'S MIDDLE-AGED OFFSHORE
… June 20, p. 16). BP Exploration currently has three semisubmersible rigs in the West of Shetland area. They are drilling appraisal ..... the region. Texaco chartered the Sonat Arcade Frontier semisubmersible rig to drill the Sula Sgeir prospect on Block 202/12 …
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SHELL MARKS PROGRESS IN DEEPWATER GULF
… Sonat Richardson. Both are fourth generation, deepwater semisubmersible rigs , and both are working under present contracts with SOI ..... three gas producers and one for oil - using the Concord semisubmersible rig . Popeye lies in 2,000 ft of water (13394 bytes …
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Big floating production unit en route to Congo
… field's two wellhead platforms. At far right is a semisubmersible rig drilling development wells under a tender assisted operation ..... support 32 wells. Development wells will be drilled by semisubmersible rigs under a tender assisted operation, with all oil and …
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INDUSTRY BRIEFS
… strategy to concentrate on third and fourth generation semisubmersible rigs and heavy duty jack ups. This strategy recently led ..... contract to Transocean AS to charter the Kingsnorth Explorer semisubmersible rig to drill a well on its Pierce discovery on U.K. North …
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Industry promotes surface BOPs for floating drilling operations
… a second generation semisubmersible rig , to drill wells with ..... or fifth-generation semisubmersible rigs , using subsea BOP stacks ..... and third-generation semisubmersible rigs . Goodfellow said Sepco ..... or fifth-generation semisubmersible rigs . Goodfellow said …
