Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore energy industry, has completed construction on a further jackup drilling rig, and its delivery to Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Company (NDC).
The contract for this latest NDC rig was signed in October 2011 and this is the fourth rig in a series of six identical rigs being built and delivered by Lamprell to NDC.
All six rigs have been or will be designed according to the Cameron LeTourneau Super 116E (Enhanced) Class design. The new rig has been delivered to the client following the delivery of the third drilling unit, “Qarnin”, in February of this year.
The remaining two rigs for NDC are all proceeding on schedule and will be delivered as planned in late 2014/early 2015.
This new rig for NDC is the ninth Super 116E jackup drilling unit that Lamprell has completed for various clients during the last six years. The jackup rig will be officially named, and completion will be marked, at a ceremony at Lamprell’s Hamriyah facility in the UAE towards the end of May, before departing for operations at its drilling location in Abu Dhabi.
[mappress] May 19, 2014