High-Specification Jackup Delivery Delay (Scandinavian Oil-Gas Magazine)

High-Specification Jackup Delivery Delay

Published Mar 8, 2016

The KFELS Super B Class, an enhanced version of the standard B Class, was an innovative answer to the call for extreme drilling rigs that can operate in deeper depths and at higher temperature and pressure levels (photo: Keppel FELS)

Transocean Ltd. – international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells – has announced that a mutual agreement with Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd's shipyard, Keppel FELS, to defer the delivery and related payments of five high-specification jackups until 2020.

The Super B 400 Bigfoot Class jackup drilling rigs are now scheduled to be delivered in two and three month intervals beginning in the first quarter of 2020.

Tags: Keppel FELS Limited, Transocean Ltd.

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