Noble inks $640m Atwood driller deal

Atwood Oceanis

Eoin O'Cinneide

 27 September 2012 12:15 GMT

Noble Energy has taken an Atwood Oceanics drillship newbuild out of a South Korean yard for three years in a deal worth $640 million.

The US independent will be using the the Atwood Advantage in its deep-water plays in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Noble said it has contracted the unit for 36 months from delivery in the fourth quarter of 2013 at $584,000 a day, putting the total contract backlog for Atwood at close to $640 million.

Equipped with a dual blow-out preventer and capable of drilling to 40,000 feet in 12,000 feet of water, the drillship is one of two being built by Atwood at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.

The other, Atwood Achiever, is slated for delivery…

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