Noble Corp. is adding to its cold stacked and warm stacked list, in addition to receiving an early termination notice, and signing a short term contract with Apache.
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Noble Tom Prosser, from Noble. |
The Noble Jim Day semisubmersible is currently on the cold stacked list, which came off of a contract in the Gulf of Mexico in late January. The Noble Dave Beard semisubmersible is being prepared to be added to the cold stacked list. The vessel came off of a contract in April and is in Singapore.
Noble Corp. currently has semisubmersibles Noble Amos Runner and Noble Homer Ferrington on the cold stacked list; in addition to the Noble Max Smith, which is being prepared to be cold stacked.
Due to a failed attempt at the Driftwood-1 well offshore Western Australia, Quadrant Energy sent Noble an early termination notice for the Noble Tom Prosser jackup. The contract is expected to end during the second half of September. Quadrant owes Noble a demobilization fee, plus 50% of the operating dayrate through the original contract expiration date. The full contract dayrate is US$203,000.
The Noble Houston Colbert jackup is under tow to the UAE, where it is expected to be warm stacked. It will join five other five other rigs on the warm stacked list: semisubmersibles Noble Danny Adkins in the Gulf of Mexico and the Noble Clyde Boudreaux in Singapore; drillships Noble Tom Madden and Noble Sam Croft, both in the Gulf of Mexico; and the Noble Regina Allen jackup in Denmark.
According to the company’s fleet status report for August, Apache hired the Noble Bob Douglas drillship for work offshore Suriname from April-June 2017 at an undisclosed dayrate.
The Noble Lloyd Noble jackup is under tow to the United Kingdom, where it will under a four-year contract with Statoil at its Mariner field beginning in mid-October.
For the Noble Bully I drillship, the company anticipates +/- 20 days of operational downtime at a zero dayrate for thruster repair in Q3. The rig is currently under a five-year contract with Shell in the Gulf of Mexico until March 2017. The supermajor recently negotiated a reduced dayrate for the rig in April at $491,000, due to the decline in operating costs from the reduction in crew levels. However, according the Noble’s August fleet status report, the dayrate is currently set at $488,000.
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