Fossil Energy – Drilling
Transocean has been awarded two new charters for drillship Deepwater Asgard for work in the US Gulf that add approximately 14 months of backlog to the rig.
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The first charter is for one well with Murphy at a dayrate of $395,000. Operations will begin following the rig’s current contract and a planned out-of-service period. Murphy also has an option for one more well at the same dayrate. The contract backlog is approximately $20 million.
The second charter is with an unnamed operator at $440,000 per day for one year, plus up to $40,000 per day for additional products and services.
This programme is expected to start in the first half of 2023. The operator has three one-year options at dayrates to be mutually agreed. The backlog for the firm portion of the contract is approximately $161 million, excluding any revenue associated with the additional products and services.