UAE-based Maritime Industrial Services has signed a contract with Saudi Aramco for refurbishment work on its SAR 201 jack-up rig. The work is set to start in the first week of April with the arrival of the rig at MIS' Sharjah yard and is scheduled for completion by early August 2009.
The scope of the project covers major refurbishment work to be done to the accommodation units in addition to blasting and painting work to the legs, tank repairs and coatings and some major piping works. The project will also cover the inspection of the rig's spud cans, among other work, all within the framework of a five-year special periodical survey for a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU).
MIS also recently held an official steel cutting ceremony for Hull 109, one of two offshore jack-up drilling rigs contracted in September last year to Gulf-based MENAdrill, in a US$364 million contract for two rigs.
Hull 109 is another Friede and Goldman (F&G) Super Mod 2 design and is scheduled for delivery in the third quarter of 2010 with its sister rig, Hull 110, scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2010. The steel cutting ceremony was attended by representatives from Noble Denton Middle East, the strategic partner representing MENAdrill on the project team, officials from ABS Middle East, MIS senior management and Hull 109's project team.