LeTourneau Tech Signs $185m Construction
LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. (LTI) signed contracts valued at approximately $185m with a Brazilian construction consortium to provide the rig kit, rig design and drilling equipment for two LeTourneau Super 116E jack-up rigs. The two Super 116E jack-up rigs are to be built at Petrobras' Maragojipe, Bahia, Brazil facility by the Consorcio Rio Paraguacu. The rig kits will be substantially delivered in 2009 while most of the drilling equipment will be provided in 2010. The Super 116E Class is one of five current LTI jack-up rig designs, and is an evolution of LTI's industry workhorse 116-C Class design. The Super 116E provides for up to 2,000 kip greater payload than its predecessor. The rig is designed to drill in up to 350 feet of water in moderate environmental locations and can be outfitted to handle high temperature/high pressure wells. LTI built the world's first jack-up drilling rig in 1955.
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maintenance services, updating new versions and a yearly technical back-up visit, carried out by SENER engineers to the Navy installations in Rio de Janeiro. Also, SENER and the COPPETEC foundation, linked to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, have reached a collaboration agreement creating a subject called 'Projeto de Constru�ao com Modelos 3D concorrentes,' in the academic Maritime Engineering program. This subject is aimed at familiarizing the students with 3D design using the FORAN System. The agreement includes the possibility of the University personnel giving FORAN courses to shipyards or engineering departments, collaboration in R&D projects and the organisation of seminars and other activities regarding FORAN divulgation. Likewise, the STX Brazil Offshore SA shipyard, former Aker-Promar, in Niteroi, Brazil, specialized in building service ships for the off-shore industry has consolidated the use of FORAN, purchasing new licences for the Outfitting subsystem.
FORAN Strengthens in Brazil
SENER has strengthened its presence in Brazil, increasing FORAN System licences The Brazilian Navy has contracted an increase in FORAN licences in the Structure, Outfitting, Electrical, Build Strategy and Drafting disciplines for the use in the Maritime Project Center. The new licences will be used in the detail engineering of different maritime units in construction in the Rio de Janeiro Navy Arsenal. Furthermore, the Navy of Brazil and SENER have reached a preliminary agreement for extending the maintenance service of the FORAN licences installed in the CPN and AMRJ during 2009 and 2010. The agreement includes software
Keppel Wins Brazil Contract
In Brazil, BrasFELS has secured a contract from Noble Drilling for the completion of an ultradeepwater semi drilling rig named the Noble Dave Beard, which is scheduled to arrive in Brazil at the end of March. The Beard is a dynamically-positioned (DP2) semi unit designed to operate in water depths up to 10,000 ft., with a drilling depth of up to 35,000 ft. The scope of work to be performed by Keppel FELS Brazil includes the mechanical completion of the Beard, as well as assisting in the commissioning and installation of customer specified equipment. Upon its expected completion in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Beard will be chartered to Petrobras for work in offshore Brazil.
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