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while describing the new 208m-long, 40m-wide, design at the Offshore

Mediterranean Conference (OMC) in

Ravenna earlier this year.

Scherl said that the vessel will deliver

Drilling a cost saving of about 10% of the overall well costs per well, shared between the drilling contractor and the operator.

Fincantieri set out with a number of goals for Proxima: an ability to drill in up to 12,000ft water depth and to 50,000ft of total drilling depth, transit at more than 14 knots, accommodate up to 250 people, carry two 20,000 psi BOPs and have a vari- able deck load up to 32,000-tonne. Scherl said the vessel will be safer, due to the cylindrically-shaped, enclosed, drill tow- ers, situated over two well centers, spread 26m apart. Compared to few hundred bolts in the new tower concept, developed by Norway-based

Fincantieri subsid- iary Caster Drilling

Seeing

Solutions, a stan- dard, lattice design tower has some more Fincantieri’s Proxima drillship design. than 5000 bolts,

Images from Fincantieri O