According to the yard, the rig will be towed to Zyryanskaya Bay in the south-west of Sakhalin Island, where Gazflot will assume full control over its operations.
Polar Star is currently stationed near Samsung Heavy Industry’s shipyard in South Korea, where specialists from both yards are completing the final touches on the unit.
Under the $2.2 billion turnkey contract signed in 2007 by Vyborg and Gazflot, the shipyard has to supply two semisub drilling rigs capable of working in severe Arctic conditions.
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