Norway’s Aker Solutions has won a contract with a subsidiary of China’s Honghua Holding to deliver high specification drilling equipment components for seven new onshore drilling rigs destined for delivery to Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Company (NDC). The contract value is about NOK 365 million ($64 million).
Honghua is building a series of seven drilling rigs for NDC under a deal valued at $300 million struck in December last year.
Honghua will provide seven units of 9000-meter 3000hp cluster land drilling rigs, which will be used mainly in the operation of oilfields in the Middle-East.
All drilling rigs will be delivered to the client throughout stages in 2013. The contract includes options for another four identical deliveries.
Each drilling equipment delivery includes a drawwork, three mud pumps, a 1,000 tons top drive and other equipment from Aker Solutions.
“This contract underlines the quality of Aker Solutions’ drilling equipment portfolio, combined with our proven execution ability on multi-rig projects and that our drilling expertise and high specification equipment can be applied in the onshore drilling market,” says Thor Arne Håverstad, executive vice president and head of drilling technologies in Aker Solutions.
Aker Solutions will deliver the first equipment sets to the customer in the fourth quarter of 2012. All equipment deliveries will be completed by the summer of 2013. The majority of the equipment will be delivered from Aker Solutions’ subsidiary in Erkelenz, Germany.
