Maersk Drilling’s third XL Enhanced ultra harsh environment jackup was officially named Saturday morning at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore.
Margareth Øvrum, Executive Vice President in Statoil, named the rig - the third in a series of four ultra-harsh environment jackup rigs entering Maersk Drilling's fleet at a cost of US$2.6 billion, the Maersk Integrator.
The Maersk Intregator is due to mobilize to the North Sea where it will start a four-year contract with Statoil for drilling on the Gina Krog field in the Norwegian North Sea worth about $620 million.
The fourth unit is due to be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016.
“With Maersk Integrator we now have three of the world’s largest, ultra-harsh environment jack-up rigs in our fleet, enabling us to provide safe and efficient drilling operations to our customers in the Norwegian market ,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board of the Maersk Group.
XL Enhanced jackup facts
With a leg-length of 206.8 m (678 ft) the rigs are the world’s largest jackup rigs and are designed for year round operation in the North Sea, in up to 150m water depths.
The units have dual pipe handling and the drill floors feature multi machine Control - a fully remote operated pipe handling system allowing all standard operations such as stand building and tripping to be conducted without personnel on the drill floor thus ensuring a high level of consistency across crews and an improved efficiency.
Image from Maersk Drilling.
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