The contractor has had “significantly higher volumes” of interest in financing the Songa Encourage and Songa Enabler than it did for the first two units — Songa Equinox and Songa Endurance — in the four-rig series at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, according to chief executive Bjornar Iversen.

All four units have long-term contracts with Statoil off Norway, with financing for the first pair to be finalised this month, Iversen said.

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