Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has been awarded contract extensions for two jack-up rigs in the UK and Saudi Arabia. In its latest fleet status report Noble Corp. said that Total had awarded a contract extension to the Noble Sam Hartley jack-up.
The extension is from mid-July to mid-April 2020. The 2014-built rig has been working for Total in the UK since October 2018.
According to Bassoe Offshore, the dayrate for the rig’s contract and extension with Total is $90,000.
Furthermore, Saudi Aramco has awarded an extension to the Noble Joe Beall jack-up. This will keep the rig working in Saudi Arabia until late December 2019 with a dayrate of $65,000.
The Noble Joe Beall has been working for Saudi Aramco since January 2016. The rig was built in 1981 and rebuilt in 2004.
In other news, the 2013-built drillship Noble Don Taylor is preparing at a shipyard in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for mobilization to Guyana where it will operate for ExxonMobil.
The 2014-built jack-up Noble Houston Colbert is at a shipyard in the UK preparing for a contract with an unnamed client, which is scheduled to start in early November 2019.
