The drillship will be owned and operated by the Tungsten Explorer Company, a subsidiary of Vantage Drilling Company.
The delivery of the drillship is scheduled to take place in 2012.
Aker Solutions’ drilling technologies business executive vice president and head Thor Arne Haverstad said they are very pleased to win another contract to deliver their deepwater drilling equipment and systems.
Vantage Drilling VP Assets and Engineering Bill Thomson said that this will be the seventh drilling package from Aker Solutions that Vantage will be involved in.
" As such Aker Solutions’ commitment to deliver not only an excellent service during the construction but to provide a first-class customer service when in operations is important to the success of Vantage Drilling, " Thomson added.
