Offshore staff
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Valaris Ltd. announced new contracts and contract extensions, with associated contract backlog of $149 million, awarded subsequent to issuing the company’s most recent fleet status report on July 28.
Contract backlog excludes lump sum payments such as mobilization fees and capital reimbursements.
The three-well contract with Eni Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. offshore Mexico is for semisubmersible VALARIS DPS-5. The contract is expected to commence in fourth-quarter 2022 and has an estimated duration of 240 days. The operating day rate is $313,500, plus a mobilization fee of about $1.2 million.
The one-well contract with an undisclosed operator offshore Australia is for heavy-duty modern jackup VALARIS 107. The contract is expected to commence either late in the first quarter or early in the second quarter of 2023 with an estimated duration of 60 days. The operating rate is $120,000 per day.
In late July, the company announced it successfully reactivated four deepwater floaters just over a year after emerging from Chapter 11. The reactivations started in fourth-quarter 2021 and included semisubmersible VALARIS DPS-1 for Woodside Energy in Australia, drillships VALARIS DS-4 for Petrobras in Brazil, VALARIS DS-9 for Exxon Mobil in Angola, and VALARIS DS-16 for Occidental in the US Gulf of Mexico.
09.02.2022