Aban close to deploying drill ship Abraham

30 Jun 2010 Evaluate

Aban Offshore is likely to deploy its drill ship Aban Abraham with Brunei Shell Petroleum for a three-year contract at a day rate in the range of $300,000, according to sources close to the development.

 

Aban Abraham’s contract with the Ghana-based company Cosmos Energy, which was fetching a day rate of $325,000, ended in April this year. The asset was deployed in September 2009. The new contract for Aban Abraham will also expand cash-flow visibility.

 

The 1976-built Aban Abraham can work in water depth of 6,600 metres and drill up to 25,000 metres. The development leaves Aban with 2 idle rigs — DD 6 and 8. In March Aban won a contract for deployment of its jack-up rig Deep Driller 1 for a period of one year and two optional periods of 6 months each with Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd. The estimated revenue from the contract is about $41 million (around Rs 185 crore), which works out to roughly $112,000 per day.

The company had also signed a contract to deploy its jack-up rig Aban VII in offshore Qatar for a six-week period. The firm estimates revenues of $2.5 million from this deployment, or about $60,000 per day, which is extremely modest.

The company is also actively scouting for another deep drilling rig that will replace Aban Pearl that sank off the Venezuelan coast in May while working for the country’s national oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA. The rig was earning $350,000 per day and was its most remunerative contract.

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