Statoil secures rig for NCS

摘要

Statoil has signed a Letter of Intent for a five-year, US $650m contract with Seadrill for a newly built drilling rig for use on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The jackup drilling rig is currently under construction at the Jurong yard in Singapore. Plans call for the rig to start operating on the NCS in the third quarter of 2011. Statoil has an option to extend the contract for one to four years under the same terms as the initial deal.