The ultra-deepwater unit, originally ordered at a cost of $615 million at Hyundai Heavy Industries, was originally due to be delivered from the yard in the third quarter last year ready to start work in the subsequent quarter for Anadarko Petroleum.
However, the US independent will not now get its hands on the vessel until the second quarter to start drilling operations off West Africa under a four-year contract at a dayrate of $488,000.
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