Drilling and engineering agency KCA Deutag has secured a two-year contract extension for offshore drilling and upkeep providers on the Vår Energi’s Ringhorne platform within the Norwegian North Sea.
The contract extension, which now has an finish date of March 2026, “additional solidifies the partnership between KCA Deutag and the Ringhorne, marking 24 years of collaboration because the platform’s commissioning in 2002”, the corporate stated in a information launch Tuesday.
“The award of this extension demonstrates our robust relationship with Vår Energi and our dedication to delivering the best requirements of security and efficiency to our clients”, KCA Deutag President of Offshore Ole Maier stated.
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“We’re delighted to have expanded our scope of labor to incorporate built-in providers similar to tubular working and cuttings reinjection providers, demonstrating our dedication to the supply of superior drilling applied sciences that optimize effectivity and security”, Maier continued.
“We look ahead to persevering with our profitable partnership with Vår Energi as we work collectively to safeguard a sustainable power provide”, he concluded.
The Ringhorne discipline is positioned about 5.6 miles (9 kilometers) northeast of the Balder floating manufacturing unit (FPU). The sector is supplied with a platform that produces and sends oil and fuel to Balder FPU for remaining processing, storage and export. Manufacturing on Ringhorne began in 2003, in keeping with Var Energi’s web site.
Ringhorne East is supplied with 4 wells from the Ringhorne discipline with manufacturing beginning in 2006. A brand new drilling marketing campaign from the Ringhorne platform began in 2019 and continues to be ongoing, Var Energi stated.
Partnership with Pruitt for MPD Know-how
In the meantime, KCA Deutag signed an unique partnership settlement with Pruitt, an trade chief in managed strain drilling (MPD) expertise, to collaborate on MPD alternatives globally.
The partnership supplies Pruitt with entry to KCA Deutag’s assets, rig engineering, and provide and manufacturing bases in Europe and the Center East, whereas KCA Deutag will profit from the inclusion of Pruitt’s best-in-class MPD expertise options for drilling operations, in keeping with an earlier information launch.
“Pruitt is an trade chief in managed strain drilling and this partnership permits us to supply further MPD expertise and providers to additional assist our clients with drilling and nicely supply options”, Maier stated. “By working intently collectively, we will leverage our experience to introduce new methods of working and goal development alternatives to [enhance the brand] and create accretive worth [for] all stakeholders”.
“KCA Deutag is a number one drilling, engineering and expertise companion and this settlement supplies us with direct entry to 160 owned and managed drilling rigs throughout the Center East, Europe, Africa, [the] Caspian Sea, Latin America and Canada”, Pruitt President and CEO Grant Pruitt stated. “We look ahead to working collectively to ship profitable managed strain drilling tasks to clients globally”.
KCA Deutag describes itself as a number one drilling, engineering and expertise companion within the present and future international power markets with over 135 years of expertise. The corporate has a world community of operations that spans 25 international locations and it presently operates or owns 160 drilling rigs worldwide.
The Scotland-based firm’s Kenera enterprise unit helps the power transition by the event of decarbonization applied sciences and the supply of services to wash power markets.
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