The NOMAD Rig Class

摘要

End of June rig designer and manufacturer BENTEC and international drilling contractor KCADEUTAG introduced the first of its NOMAD rigs.More than 200 senior executives from international oil operators,drilling contractors and government authorities,attended the rig-up party for T-211,which will be mobilised in the third quarter 2007 to Algeria,North Africa to work for BP/ Sonatrach under a one year contract with options with KCA Deutag.The new NOMAD Class which has been jointly developed by Bentec and KCA Deutag in Bad Bentheim,Germany,stands for highly mobile rigs designed primarily for North African and Middle East desert terrain conditions.A second identical Nomad Class rig is scheduled for completion in September 2007 with further Nomad rigs currently under consideration.