Aban Offshore sells jackup rig to Adnoc for $28m

India’s Aban Offshore has struck a deal to promote one other jackup rig to Adnoc Drilling.

The Chennai-headquartered firm has offloaded the 2009-built jackup
Deep Driller 8 for $28m. Final yr, Aban additionally bought the 2006-built jackup Deep Driller 3 to the UAE-based driller for $31.5m. The sale ought to be accomplished by July 31, 2022.

In April, India’s largest offshore driller agreed to promote 4 jackups to offshore rig operator ADES Saudi for $106m. One rig has been delivered, whereas the transactions for the remaining three couldn’t be accomplished and has been prolonged to June 30 of this yr.