Offshore staff

HOUSTON– Northern Offshore has sold the semisubmersible Energy Driller to an unnamed party for conversion to alternative use. 

The unit had previously been cold stacked at a shipyard in Bahrain following completion of a term drilling contract in India.

Chairman and (Interim) CEO Dr. Yuanhui Sun said: “The sale of theEnergy Driller completes Northern Offshore’s strategy to divest of its floating drilling rig assets and allows us to focus our resources on building and operating a fleet of new, high specification jackups.” 

In late 2016, the drilling contractor sold the drillshipEnergy Searcher.

02/19/2018