Deepsea Yantai rig will drill for PGNiG again

Norwegian rig operator Odfjell Drilling has signed, on behalf of Chinese shipowner (owner) CIMC Offshore, a charter agreement with PGNiG (Orlen Group) for the Deepsea Yantai platform. PGNiG has already used this platform in the past.

PGNiG will use the semi-submersible drilling rig to drill the ‘Tomcat’ well under licence PL 1055 in the Norwegian Sea. The contract includes an option to drill two further wells in 2024. Financial information on the contract was not disclosed.

The Deepsea Yantai rig’s work for PGNiG on the ‘Tomcat’ well is scheduled to take 55 days to drill and is expected to start in late Q2/early Q3 2024.

Deepsea Yantai is a semi-submersible drilling rig designed to operate in very harsh weather conditions, including Arctic regions (it is ‘winteryised’), with temperatures up to 22 ̊C below zero. It can operate in water depths of up to approximately 500 m with eight-point anchoring and up to 1,200 m with a dynamic positioning system (DP3) and drill to depths of up to 8,000 m.

Deepsea Yantai – sub-structure characteristics:
IMO number – 9731638
design – GM4D (GM-4000D)
shipyard – Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd, Yantai SD Yard, China
year of construction – 2019
GT – 39,925
deadweight – 17 670 t
payload – 4,000 t
overall length – 106.75 m
maximum width – 73.70 m
draught in working order – 21.00 m
lateral height – 42.00 m
total installed power – MCR 36 000 kW (48 948 hp)
drilling rig – NOV (680 t)
drilling winches (drawworks) – NOV AHD (680 t)
top drive – NOV 680mTHPS-1000.
crew accommodation – 130
classification – DNV

Source: PortalMorski.pl