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Aker Solutions Wins Drilling Equipment Contract


thor_haverstad_offshore_industryjpgAker Solutions has received a Letter of Award from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), to supply two drilling equipment packages to the new ‘Cat D’ drilling rigs the yard is building for the rig operator Songa Offshore. Options (if exercised) for two additional units are included. Contract value is undisclosed. The development of the two Cat D semi-submersible drilling rigs has been initiated by Statoil. The first two units will be delivered in 2014.

Two Long-Term Contracts
Statoil awarded two long-term contracts for the units to Songa in July 2011. The first two units will be delivered in 2014, and the main deliveries from Aker Solutions will take place in 2012 and 2013. The contract includes topside drilling equipment, procurement and commissioning of the rigs at the DSME yard.

Optional Units
The two optional units (if exercised) are scheduled for completion in 2015. Thor Arne Håverstad, head of Aker Solutions’ Drilling Technologies Business, comments: “We are very pleased to win these contracts, which demonstrate the good cooperation between Statoil and the drilling operators and drilling system providers. Together, we have developed a new generation drilling and well intervention design, purpose made for the needs for North Sea operations, through a joint front end engineering and design ( FEED) phase. We are also looking forward to continuing the good, long-term collaboration with DSME on this project, the latest addition to a long string of successful joint projects,” says .

Work on the project will start immediately in Kristiansand, Norway, and in other Aker Solutions drilling technologies units in Asker, Norway, Erkelenz, Germany and Houston in the US.