Statoil has awarded Maersk Drilling a contract for chartering a completely new jack-up rig for the Dagny field on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The rig will drill on the Dagny oil and gas field in the North Sea. Earlier this year Statoil and its partners chose a fixed processing platform concept, by which the gas is to be connected to the Sleipner field while the oil is to be transported by ship.
“This will be a completely new jack-up drilling rig that is to be built at KeppelFels in Singapore. It will be the third of this type of rig built with the CJ-70 design. Valued at USD 605 million, the contract runs for four years with two one-year options,” says Jon Arnt Jacobsen, chief procurement officer at Statoil.
“This type of jack-up is not a new rig category, but is part of what we describe as conventional rigs, so-called category C.”
Production drilling is scheduled to start the summer of 2015 by pre-drilling through the jacket before the platform deck is installed the summer of 2016. With pre-drilling, production from Dagny can be accelerated.