Keppel FELS completes Ivar Aasen jackup

Aug. 7, 2014
Keppel FELS has delivered the newbuild jackup XLE-2 to Maersk Drilling, seven days ahead of schedule. 

Offshore staff

SINGAPORE – Keppel FELS has delivered the newbuild jackup XLE-2 to Maersk Drilling, seven days ahead of schedule.

The rig, which will be named at a ceremony in Norway in October, is an XL Enhanced (XLE) harsh environmentjackup, customized for the North Sea.

It has a leg length of 206.8 m (678 ft) and is designed for year-round operations in the sector, in water depths up to 150 m (492 ft).

Det norske oljeselskap has chartered the rig to work for five years on theIvar Aasen development in the central Norwegian North Sea.

08/07/2014