Samsung Heavy Industries has built 10 drillships so far, and has another 25 on order. Among them is a series of ships for Stena.
More recently, a DSME contract last
year, with a pair of drillships ordered by Odebrecht for US$700 million, which will be leased to Petrobras aſter delivery in the second-half of 2011. Aker Solutions has been awarded the US$260 million contracts to deliver drilling equipment packages. For Aker, the scope of work includes engineering, equipment deliveries and commissioning services. HHI, meanwhile won its first firm
drillship orders in 2008, with one secured from Transocean and two more secured from Metrostar. Tese 229.4m long by 36m wide by 18.15m deep ships have been designed by Gusto MSC, with the first ship due for delivery in October 2010. Joining the party in 2009 has been
STX Shipbuilding, which secured its first drillship order from Huisman, and it is the comments of this shipbuilder that suggest that four of the big five Korean shipbuilders at least are likely to be vying for forthcoming drillship orders expected from Petrobras and Shell with considerable zeal. STX, of course, is very different from
other Korean shipbuilders, aſter it took over the former Aker Yards to establish STX Europe, entering the cruiseship market in one fell swoop. Overall, 2009 will be a big year for
deliveries for STX, but 2010 will be even bigger. As additional building capacity came on stream at the Changwon yard this year, output has risen dramatically. Compared to the 56 ships delivered in 2008 (1227cgt), 2009 will see 88 delivered (1896cgt), and 2010 will see delivery of 99 ships (2500cgt). STX was particularly successful in
securing bulk carrier orders, as that market boomed, with 24 ships of this type to be delivered in 2009, rising to 57 bulk carriers in 2010, with orders split across the range of Supramax, Kamsarmax, Mini-Cape and Capesize vessels. This compares to no bulk carrier deliveries at all in 2008. Te expanded bulk carrier
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production should be set against the tailing off of tanker output (23 tankers slated for 2010 delivery, against 55 such ships in 2009). Te overall production level should also be seen in the context of low output of containerships (2008, eight ships, 2009 seven ships, 2010 four ships). STX’s presence in the gas carrier
market will be sustained in 2010 with the delivery of nine ships, against six in 2008, but none at all in 2009. S J Her, STX Corp manager,
marketing planning team, shipbuilding marketing division, said: “STX considers LNG-related offshore facilities as future growth engines,” said Mr Her. “We have developed a generic design of LNG FSRU and LNG FPSO, and now we are working on marketing them to LNG-oriented shipowners.” Mr Her said STX also believed
the market for drillships and semi submersibles would become larger. “So we are planning to do marketing aggressively with our unique-design drillship, which is different from a conventional drillship,” said Mr Her. “We have received from a renowned American drilling company two drillships called STX-Huisman GT-10000 Design, having 10,000ſt water depth and 40,000ſt drilling depth with 189m length x 32.2m beam x
18.9m depth at 11knots service speed.” As noted earlier, Mr Her was referring
to a pair of HuisDrill 10000 ships, which will be delivered by the STX satellite yard in Dalian, China, some time in 2011. The HuisDrill 10000 is designed to
offer a low cost and flexible alternative for drilling in ultra deep waters. Tis design envisages a compact box type drilling tower instead of a conventional derrick and the omission of a substructure allows for a significantly smaller sized vessel compared to other deepwater drillships of similar capacity, according to Huisman. Te vessel measures 198m by 32.2m, at only 54,000dwt. In addition, the design is claimed to offer improved operational efficiency as a result of the different equipment layout, lower building costs and lower operational costs. Te drilling equipment is based on the drilling mast and pipe storage in carousels as currently under construction for the “Bully” rigs, on order by Frontier Drilling / Shell. The drillship is said to represent a
major step change in the industry, in being designed to offer a low cost and flexible alternative for drilling in ultra deep waters. Te selection of Huisman’s compact box type drilling tower instead of a conventional derrick allows for a significantly smaller sized vessel compared to other deepwater drillships
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