Seatrium bags offshore rig deal from International Maritime Industries

Seatrium Offshore Technology, the offshore jackup designer for Singapore shipyard group Seatrium, has won an international tender from International Maritime Industries (IMI) to supply equipment and the license for a self-elevating drilling unit.

This comes after ARO Drilling, a joint venture between Aramco and Valaris, and IMI agreed to build a new jack-up drilling rig, to be named Kingdom 3. This will be the first rig to be constructed in Saudi Arabia.

The chosen design for the rig will be the LeTourneau Super 116E Class and is part of the next generation of jackup designs customized for operational requirements within the Middle East and North Africa region.

These rigs will be outfitted with 104.5 m of leg and around 680,400 kg of hook load while utilizing advanced cyber systems. This latest order marks the 44th order for the LeTourneau Super 116 series of jackups.

Seatrium designed and built the world’s first independent leg jackup rig in 1955 and has been involved in the construction of more than half of all jackup rigs in service and 65% of the jackups operating in the Middle East.

Kingdom 3 is the third rig to be built under the ARO Drilling – IMI partnership but the first in Saudi Arabia. The two plan to construct a total of 20 jackups in the country.