Ocyan’s Norbe VI Rig Starts Operation
Ocyan announced the start of the operations for the Norbe VI rig under a contract signed for the next two years.
The first expedition will be carried out in the Tartaruga Verde field, in the Campos Basin, with a duration of up to 45 days. Norbe VI is one of Ocyan’s 5 deepwater drilling rigs.
The vessel is a semi-submersible drilling platform with dynamic positioning capable of operating in water depths of up to 2,400 meters and drilling wells up to 7,500 meters. The rig was built in 2010 and was under contract with Petrobras until 2018. Norbe VI will intervene in well 3-RJS-670 and is already allocated, awaiting the final approval by Petrobras to start work.
“We prepared for months in the Guanabara Bay, a period in which all the adaptation and maintenance services were carried out to meet the customer’s requirements.
Our goal is to keep this asset operationally high, the same thing that happens with other Ocyan rigs”, explains Heitor Gioppo, Superintendent director of Ocyan’s Drilling Unit.
The rig was one of those rated by Petrobras in the bidding for the hiring of equipment with the capacity to operate in 2,000 meters of water depth in Brazilian waters delimited by geographic coordinates according to Concession Contracts, Transfer of Rights or Production Sharing Contracts.
Norbe VI Milestones
The semi-submersible rig was a Petrobras’ contractor and carried out operations in the period, between 2011 and mid-2018, and had as a favorable indicator the period of two years without accidents on board. The contract was completed with 98% operational uptime (efficiency index) and ranked as second in the Petrobras performance ranking (Sondópolis).
- Norbe VI Technical Data
- Water depth 2,400 meters
- Drilling capacity 7,500 meters
- Gusto MSC Model
- DNV Class
- Length 97 meters
- Tower height 56.4 meters
- Tower capacity 2,000,000 lbs
- NOV drilling package
- BOP Ge/Hydril 18 ¾ x 15 k psi 5 Ram x 15 psi 2 Annular x 10 psi
- MPD Ready 3.2 MMlb AFG
- Accommodation 164 POB
