ABB has been awarded orders worth $ 160 million from Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd. for the design, supply, supervision of installation, testing and commissioning of the main electrical systems for seven drill ships that will operate in the deep water oil and gas fields off the coast of Brazil.
The orders were booked in the fourth quarter of last year and first quarter of this year. ABB was in part selected for its ability to provide locally produced content, which is required in Brazil.
Integrated Electrical Package
The ships will be used to drill wells in the offshore pre-salt fields off the southeast coast of Brazil. ABB will supply an integrated electrical package that will power the subsystems onboard the ships and help the operators maximise their energy efficiency.
Ultra-Deep Water Operations
The seven vessels are the first in a series of high-efficiency drill ships designed for ultra-deep water operations and built by Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz at their shipyard on the central eastern coast of Espirito Santo, Brazil. It is a wholly-owned shipyard of the Jurong Shipyard based in Singapore.
Scope of Supply
ABB’s scope of supply includes complete electrical systems including generators, distribution switchboards, transformers, drives and motors to power the ships’ thrusters and drilling systems. All ABB solutions meet or exceed IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and the customer’s standards for safety, and are in compliance with IMO (International Maritime Organization) regulations.
Equipment deliveries to the shipyard are scheduled for 2013, with the first vessel to be delivered to the ship-owner in the second quarter of 2015.
Chartered to Petrobas
The ships will be delivered to Sete Brazil, a company established in 2010 by various Brazilian and international investors. On delivery, the seven drill-ships will be chartered to Petrobras for fifteen years. Three of the ships will be partially owned and operated for Petrobas by Odfjell and three by Seadrill, both Norwegian based companies.
Picture above: Espadon Jurong Drillship Design (Jurong-Shipyard)
Picture below (please click the little squares to watch the image in its proper dimensions): Extracting oil at 6,000 meters below sea level (by ABB)
