Rig builder and engineering firm Lamprell has delivered jackup drilling rig Al Hudairiyat for Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Co. (NDC), within budget and on schedule.
The rig is the eighth of an order or nine jackup rigs for NDC and the 26th rig Lamprell has delivered since the company was listed in 2006.
Completion and delivery of the jackup was marked at a ceremony at Lamprell’s Hamriyah facility in the United Arab Emirates yesterday (16 February).
The rig will depart the facility in Q1 to its drilling location in Abu Dhabi.
The contract for the NDC Al Hudairiyat rig was signed in November 2014 and this is the eighth rig in a series of nine being built and delivered by Lamprell to NDC.
All nine rigs have been designed according to the Cameron LeTourneau Super 116E (Enhanced) Class design. The remaining rig is on schedule and is due to delivered in 1H 2017.