The two Keppel Fels-built rigs, known under the names of Pyotr Hodovanets and Nezalizhnost before the Russian annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine last year, were stationed at the Odesskoye shallow-water gas field, which is in the active development phase.
The rigs were paid for and delivered to Chernomorneftegaz by its then-parent company, Ukraine’s state-owned Naftohaz Ukrainy, between 2012 and 2013 at an estimated total cost of $650 million.
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