ABERDEEN-BASED international drilling contractor KCA Deutag has won a three-year multimillion-pound contract with operator Taqa Bratani.
It is to supply platform-drilling and maintenance services to Taqa’s four northern North Sea drilling platforms: Eider, Tern, North Cormorant and Cormorant Alpha.
The contract, worth an eight-figure sum over the three years with options to extend it, will see the group working on Taqa’s drilling campaign in the North Sea.
Taqa Bratani, a UK subsidiary of the 75% Abu Dhabi government-owned Taqa, has a planned drilling programme on its North Cormorant, Eider and Cormorant Alpha installations, including new activity. Last year, it drilled 14 development wells and one exploration well.
The contract – won from Archer, previously Seawell – will also support production from Taqa’s installations through workovers and well maintenance.
KCA Deutag said it was looking forward to working with the new team, understood to be about 100 people, as a result of the contract.
Chief executive Holger Temmen said: “This contract confirms our North Sea mandate and will facilitate further growth also on the Norwegian sector.
“We are delighted to extend our relationship with Taqa from European land drilling to include offshore North Sea drilling.
“We have retained our position as North Sea market leader over the past 16 years, while opportunities overseas have grown considerably.”
Mr Temmen added that in the past 12 months KCA Deutag had won more than £580million of contracts.
Earlier this year, it announced its acquisition of Singapore-based Global Tender Barges as part of plans to grow in south-east Asia, saying it was also considering buying new offshore vessels.
KCA Deutag employs 8,000 staff worldwide – including 685 onshore and offshore in the UK based out of Aberdeen – and turns over £990million carrying out onshore and offshore drilling operations.
It is one of the world’s largest international land-drilling contractors, with some 63 rigs and one of the largest platform-drilling operators in the North Sea.
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