7th gen DSME 12000 Drillship Info/Jobs.
The drillship was built by Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering (DSME) to meet the objectives of the Angola’s oil exploration programme that aims to guarantee new discoveries and consolidate the country’s reserves for the future. The new vessel, which will initially employ about 1,200 workers, both domestic and foreign, has deep-sea, ultra-deepwater and pre-salt operating capacity and will be available to carry out work at national and international level.
Vessel Name: Sonangol Libongos
Owner: Sonadrill
Manager: Seadrill
Rig Type: Drillship
Sub Type: Ultradeep Water
Max Water Depth (ft): 12,000
Max Drill Depth (ft): 40,000
Dimensions (ft): 782.2 x 137.8 x 30
Competitive: No
Current Location:
Country: Angola
Region: West Africa
Rig Construction Details:
Rig Design: DSME
Rig Model: e-SMART
Year Built: 2019
Country of Build: South Korea
Yard Name: Okpo Shipyard
Group Yard Name: Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME)
Rig Contract Details:
Operating Status: Standby
Operator: ----
Sonadrill Holding Ltd (“Sonadrill”), Seadrill Limited’s (“Seadrill”) on September 4, 2019 –50:50 joint venture with an affiliate of Sonangol E.P. (“Sonangol”), has secured a nine well contract with six options, each for one well, in Angola for the Libongos drillship. The estimated total contract value is $101 million with commencement expected late Q3 2019 and running to early 2021. The Libongos is the first of two Sonangol owned drillships to be bareboat chartered into Sonadrill along with two Seadrill-owned or managed units. Seadrill will manage and operate the four units on behalf of Sonadrill.
The drillship’s dayrate is $204,000 for the duration of 495 days. The contract starts on September 23, 2019, and ends on January 30, 2021. Seadrill entered into the joint venture with Sonangol in February 2019. It was agreed for Seadrill to operate four drillships on behalf of Sonadrill, focusing on opportunities in Angolan waters. It was also agreed that each of the JV parties would bareboat two drillships into Sonadrill.
The Seadrill drillships are from its existing owned or managed fleet. The Sonangol drillships, Libongos and Quenguela, both 7th generation high-spec ultra-deepwater drillships, were built at a DSME shipyard in Korea and delivered in the first half of 2019. The first drillship, Sonangol Libongos, was delivered in March 2019. The naming ceremony for the second drillship, Sonangol Quengela, was held at DSME’s yard in May 2019 and the vessel left the shipyard in June.
On May 18, 2019, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has delivered, Sonangol Libongos, the first of two drillships in a series ordered by Angolan state-owned oil company Sonangol. Sonangol Libondos is a DSME e-SMART ultra-deepwater drillship capable of operating in deep, ultra-deep, and pre-salt waters.
Sonadrill was established in February 2019 as a joint venture between offshore oilfield services provider Seadrill and state-owned Sonangol. Seadrill has been doing business in Angola for a many years. Currently, Seadrill have only one rig over here, the West Gemini, which is working for Eni on a contract that will end in July 2019. After this, the West Gemini will go to Las Palmas to get all its equipment recertified and complete some upgrades. It will come back to Angola in October, when a new long-term Sonadrill contract will begin.
Besides the West Gemini, Seadrill will be contributing towards the Sonadrill joint venture with another drillship, and it still has to be decided which one. In addition to these two Seadrill drillships, Sonadrill will have two brand new drillships through Sonangol, who is partner in the joint venture. Sonangol was looking for an operator that could manage its drillships, a company with local knowledge and extensive deepwater expertise. Seadrill chose Sonangol and that is how Sonadrill was created.
These two drillships will be mobilised from South Korea to Walvis Bay (in Namibia) where they will get their last fittings to then move on to Angola. As of May, it was in Singapore, waiting for the final details of the contract so that it can be sent to Angola. On May 17, the second drillship, Quenguela, was delivered.
Both rigs are absolutely state of the art. They feature blowout preventers with all the bells and whistles. If you look at all the drillships that have been built with NOV [National Oilwell Varco] equipment, you can clearly see there’s been some great improvements. It’s easier for people to work on those rigs and it makes them more efficient. These two rigs are the latest generation, with all the current upgrades to operate more efficiently for the client.
The way they are outfitted is going to be a pleasure for the people working on them, and it will be a pleasure for the clients as well. It is going to be the first time that such rigs are used in Angola. In Angola opportunities are massive for this company. These four rigs in the JV have competition from rigs currently operating in Angola, but the future looks bright. Even in this JV, co. might add more rigs to it.
It’s still a buyer’s market, so you need to be very competitive, have the best operational performance and the best equipment and Sonadrill has all three. Offshore Angola is one of the most significant deepwater markets in the world and to bring four modern, high-spec drillships into the market at this time when we are starting to see increased activity is ideal for Sonadrill. The future is looking bright.
Local development is good for the economy, the country and the companies. A focus on management skills is something we are going to be working on. It’s so beneficial. Quite often, you put people in a position where they are promoted based on technical skills, but you need to have leadership skills as well. You reach a certain level when it’s not only technical skills needed, but management skills. They fail somewhere and we fire them because they made a mistake. If we spend a little bit of time developing the leadership skills, the benefit would be exponential. It’s amazing how much you can get from that.
There is huge potential to bring back a very substantial number of workers. It’s beneficial for us as a company because they know Seadrill and they will operate similar rigs with our training requirements. It’s easier to have a good candidate who worked with us before. If you get them back, it’s easier to operate these rigs than with somebody you don’t know and you have never worked with.
Vessel Name: Sonangol Libongos
Owner: Sonadrill
Rig manager: Seadrill
Type: Drillship
Design category: Drillship 7th gen
Full design name: DSME 12000
IMO: 9730543
Class: ABS
Constructed at: DSME
Year in SVC: 2019
Latest upgrade: ----
Competitive: Yes
SPS due date: ----
Main features:
Water depth (ft): 12000
Design water depth: 12000
Drilling depth: 40,000
Oper. area: International
Harsh envnmt: No
Winterized: No
High spec: Yes
Accomm.: ----
VDL (MT): ----
LDT: ----
Draft: ----
Drilling equipment:
Hook load (kips): 2500
#Of derricks: Dual activity
Offline stand build: No
HPHT: No
MPD: No
BOP max psi: 15
# of BOPs: 1
Station keeping:
DP: DP3
Moored: No
Thruster Assist: No
Contract status:
Status: Warm/Hot Stacked
Operator: ----
Country: Angola
Region: West Africa
Day rate: ----
Next available: 31.01.2021
Available until: ----
Backlog: 102408000
Value: Value ($m): 298-329
Contract detail:
Country: Angola
Day rate: 204 000
Start date: 23.09.2019
End date: 30.01.2021
Operator: Undisclosed
Location: ----
Number of wells: 9
Variable rate: No
Water depth: ----
Work type: Development Drilling
Duration (days): 495
Comment: Seadrill managing on behalf of Sonadrill
Vessel Name: Sonangol Libongos
Vessel Type: Drillship
IMO: 9730543
MMSI: 311000241
Call Sign: C6BE6
Flag: Bahamas [BS]
Home port: NASSAU
Gross Tonnage: 67101
Deadweight: 61304 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 238m × 42m
Year Built: 2019
Status: Active
• Voyage Info:
OKPO ANCH [KR]: ATD : 2019-05-01 20:48 LT (UTC +9)---------->---------->---------->BLOCK 15/06: Reported ETA: 2020-11-30 23:01 LT
Reported Destination: BLOCK 15/06
Draught: 11.5 m
Speed recorded (Max / Average): 8.3 knots / 7.9 knots
Reported Destination and ETA Received 2021-01-04 12:03 UTC
• Position:
Position Received: 2020-12-27 07:17 UTC
Vessel is Out-of-Range
Area: WAFR - West Africa
Current Port: -
Latitude / Longitude: -6.048895° / 11.13575°
Status: Restricted Manoeuvrability
Speed/Course: 0.1 kn / 172 °
AIS Source: 909
Wind: ----
Wind direction: ----
Temperature: ----
Ex Names History: ----
