China Offshore Oil Engineering Corp (COOEC) is among theclients to have taken units from the Abu Dhabi-based player for work in theMiddle East region.

COOEC has taken the Kudeta jack-up accommodation unit forwork off Khafji, Saudi Arabia. The firm contract period is 120 days with anoption for one more month.

An “international oil company operating in the Middle East”,which GMS declined to identify, has secured another yet-to-be-determinedjack-up barge for work off Abu Dhabi.