ABB recently won severalcontraets collectively worth more than $150 million to supply main electrical systems for drilling rigs and drill-ships built in Asia. The orders were booked in third-quarter 2008. Among the new orders are three deepwater drilling rigs now under construction at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore, two drill-ships - Stena DrillMax Ice and the Pride #4 drill-ship - to be built at Samsung Heavy Industries, and another drill-ship for Metrostar to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea. ABB will supply the complete electrical system for the rigs, including generators, medium and low voltage power distribution, thruster drive systems, drilling drive systems and related engineering and services.
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