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Ultra-deepwater drillships under construction.

Drillships

Operator/owner Ship name Yard Delivery date First contract, day rate (US$)

Atwood Advantage

Atwood Oceanics D aewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Eng (DSME) September 2013 Noble Energy Inc., three years, $584,000/d eastern Mediterranean

Atwood Achiever

Atwood Oceanics D aewoo June 2014 –

Atwood Admiral

Atwood Oceanics D aewoo March 2015 –

Ocean Rig Mylos

Ocean Rig ASA S amsung Heavy Industries July 2013 Repsol Sinopec Brasil SA, three years, $608,000/d

Ocean Rig Skyros

Ocean Rig S amsung October 2013 –

Ocean Rig Athena

Ocean Rig S amsung November 2013 ‘major oil company’, Angola, LOI signed

Ocean Rig TBN8

Ocean Rig S amsung January 2015 –

West Auriga

Seadrill Ltd S amsung March 2013 Unnamed, through September 2020

West Vela

Seadrill Samsung June 2013 Unnamed, through December 2020

West Jupiter

Seadrill S amsung 2014 –

West Neptune

Seadrill S amsung 2014 –

West Saturn

Seadrill S amsung 2014 –

West Tellus

Seadrill S amsung 2013 –

Camburi

Seadrill/ Sete Brasil SA Sembcorp Marine, Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz 2Q 2015 Petrobras, 15 years, Santos Basin, Brazil

Itaunas

Seadrill/ Sete Brasil Sembcorp 2017 Petrobras, 15 years

Sahy

Seadrill/ Sete Brasil Sembcorp 2019 Petrobras, 15 years

Guarapari

Odfjell SE S embcorp 2015 Petrobras, 15 years

Itaoca

Odfjell Sembcorp 2018 Petrobras, 15 years

Siri

Odfjell Sembcorp 2018 Petrobras, 15 years them ‘seventh-generation’. These The next newbuild, Ocean Rig drillships (sixth generation) will join the existing feet of six Skyros, will cost $669 million and delivered to Ocean Rig in 2011, vessels: two semisubmersibles and is due to be completed in 4Q 2013, which cost an average of four ultra-deepwater drillships. All with no work contract yet. $772 million each: four of the new drillships are being The third newbuild, Ocean Rig OCR Mykonos ($784 million); built at SHI’s yard in South Korea. Athena, will cost $679 million. The OCR Poseidon ($792 million);

Ocean Rig estimates 60 days for drillship is also scheduled to be OCR Olympia ($757 million); and mobilization from Korea to drilling delivered late this year, and Ocean OCR Corcovado ($755 million). locations and acceptance testing. Rig has signed a letter of intent for With these reduced construction All the drillships are sister ships, an initial three-year contract and costs and what seem to be solid day with common equipment, spare two additional, one-year options rates, it appears to be a good time to parts, and training standards, (through 2018) with a major US oil build.

designed to operate in water depths company for work in Angola.

of 10,000-12,000ft. They will be In October last year, Ocean Fleet expansion capable of drilling to 40,000ft, with Rig announced a new contract Seadrill, established in 2005, dual derricks, and will be equipped to construct a fourth seventh- manages a feet of with six- and seven-ram BOPs. generation ultra-deepwater semisubmersibles, jackups and The frst newbuild, Ocean Rig drillship at SHI, for $683 million. three ultra-deepwater drillships,

Mylos, will cost $670 million and is This is a sister ship to the three with two ultra-deepwater due to be delivered in July. Ocean currently under construction, and newbuilds to be delivered the frst

Rig’s frst contract for the drillship is scheduled to be delivered in half of this year from Samsung’s is with Repsol Sinopec Brasil for January 2015. yard, and seven more under three years at $608,000/day, with The four newbuilds are being construction (four at Samsung and two additional, one-year options built for an average cost of $675.25 three in Brazil).

(through 2018). Ocean Rig estimates million each – nearly $100 million Ben Bollinger, director of 92 drilling days for this rig in 2013. less than the previous four marketing for Seadrill Americas, oedigital.com January 2013 | OE 59 oe_drillship.indd 59 03/01/2013 13:44