Second Bully rig scheduled

Offshore staff

LONDON –Shell EP Wells Equipment Services BV and Frontier Drillships Ltd. have committed to contract a second deepwater/arctic drillship of the Bully class. Rig delivery is expected in 2010.

The Bully rig is a smaller vessel suited for deepwater or arctic drilling capable of 10,000 ft of water with a subsea tree and 12,000 ft with a surface blowout preventer. It also has an ice class hull.

12/21/2007