Lamprell, a provider of fabrication, engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore energy industry, announced the completion of construction on the jack-up rig Jindal Pioneer and its delivery to Dev Drilling of Singapore, a D. P. Jindal Group Company, on time and within budget.
The contract for the Jindal Pioneer rig was signed in January 2013 and this is the second rig with the LeTourneau Super 116E (Enhanced) Class design that Lamprell has delivered to this client. This latest rig has been delivered following the completion of the first rig, the Jindal Star, which successfully sailed away from Lamprell’s Hamriyah facility in Q4 2013 and is currently deployed in the Bombay high oilfield, run by India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), offshore India.
The Jindal Pioneer rig was officially named, and completion was marked, at a ceremony held at Lamprell’s Hamriyah facility in the United Arab Emirates in January.
This rig is the twelfth Super 116E jack-up drilling unit that the Group has delivered to various clients during the last seven years. The Group currently has seven new build jack-up rigs under construction at its Hamriyah facility and the construction of the further two new build jack-up rigs recently awarded by another client are due to start shortly.
