JDC Wins Contract Extension for Rig

Japanese offshore drilling contractor Japan Drilling Company has been awarded a contract extension for one of its jack-up rigs.

JDC said its Hakuryu-14 rig would remain on a contract with Pertamina Hulu Mahakam at the Mahakam block, offshore Indonesia.

The contract extension is expected to keep the drilling rig with Pertamina until early December 2020.

JDC did not share the dayrate agreed for the contract.  

Hakuryu-14 is a 400-feet operating water depth self-elevating cantilever jack-up drilling rig, built by PPL Shipyard in 2018 using a Baker Marine Design, and delivered in January 2018.

JDC provides Engineering Services, R&D in relation to offshore drilling as well as oil and gas exploration and development, and Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) services.