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OFFSHORE MARKET REPORT grade three rigs and build/upgrade two drillships for deepwater use — and recently signed a contract with

Astano for construction of the drill- ship Discoverer Enterprise. • Global Marine plans to con- vert/upgrade a flotel for rig use and upgrade one or two additional rigs for deepwater drilling. Global also plans to spend more than $150 million to convert Glomar Explorer to a deepwater drillship. • Falcon Drilling plans to convert a 542-ft., Ukrainian-built hull to a deepwater drillship capable of operating in water depths of 8,000 ft. • Odfjell plans to build a fifth gen-

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TEL (401) 841-9800 eMail [email protected] 20 Circle 289 on Reader Service Card eration semisubmersible utilizing the steel pontoons of a rig begun in 1986. Total cost is expected to exceed $200 million. • Conoco is understood to be plan- ning to place an order for a deep- water drillship, possibly in joint venture with Reading & Bates. • Sedco Forex plans to upgrade two rigs for deepwater drilling. • Saipem will convert the flotel

Scarabeo 7 (ex-Safe Supporter) to a deepwater drill rig — and is cur- rently shopping yards in the U.S. and Europe for performing the conversion. • Japan Drilling is studying the possibility of building two new semisubmersibles. • PMB/Bechtel has been given a contract by Nobel Drilling to study conversion of a three-column sub- mersible into a semisubmersible drill rig.

The pick up in offshore activity has ended a long dry spell. There has been little activity in rig con- struction for quite some time. The

Odfjell and Sonat orders for new units this year are likely just the beginning of a flow of contracts for new semisubmersibles and drill- ships. We expect increasing de- mand for new units — particular- ly as the inventory of suitable sec- ond generation rig conversion can- didates dries up.

Demand for floating production systems

Construction and conversion of floating production equipment will provide a substantial avail- able market over the next several years. To satisfy requirements for projected installations of floating production systems in the year 2000, capital expenditures exceed- ing $10 billion will be made for new floating production equip- ment over the next three to four years. Almost half of these expen- ditures will be for construction and conversion of FPSO vessels.

Another large portion will be for production semisubmersibles and tension leg platforms.

We expect that demand for float- ing production systems will con- tinue well into the next decade.

However, there will be a shift in demand for various types of equip- ment — with increasing emphasis on TLPs and other production units able to produce large multi- well fields.

We see demand for floating pro- duction systems increasing par-

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