Keppel Offshore & Marine arm Keppel FELS has finished the new DSS-21 proprietary designed semi-submersible rig for Maersk Contractors, the most advanced deep-water drilling rig to be designed and completed by Singapore to date.
The rig named, Maersk Developer, is the first of a trio of DSS-21 semi-submersible rigs that Keppel is building for Maersk Contractors, a unit of Danish shipping and oil group Moller-Maersk. The Maersk Developer is contracted to Norwegian giant StatoilHydro for operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The DSS-21 rig features a dynamic positioning system, with the ability to attach a pre-laid mooring system. It is capable of operating at water depths of 3000 metres and drilling down to 10,000 metres, which makes it suitable for conditions off Brazil, West Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and South East Asia. Maersk Contractors, which operates a fleet of 26 drilling rigs contracted to global oil companies, in May 2006 ordered its third deep-water rig from Keppel, bringing its total order for the DSS21 design to about S$1.2 billion (US$877 million). The two other DSS-21 rigs being built at Keppel FELS are set to be delivered in the second quarters of 2009 and 2010. The Maersk Developer was named on Saturday in the presence of Minister Lim Boon Heng from Singapore’s Prime Minister’s Office, by Kari Reinertsen, the wife of Oivind Reinertsen, president of StatoilHydro’s North American operations.
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