Fayard A/S has signed a contract with Maersk Drilling for a 60 days refit and repair job on the jack-up drilling rig Mærsk Guardian. The refit will begin in April 2011 at Hirtshals, and around 150 persons will be employed in the project.
“It’s always up to the customer where to repair the ship or the rig. So when Maersk Drilling decided to tow the rig from Norwegian waters to Hirtshals we consider it a normal challenge”, says Thomas Andersen, owner of Fayard.
Mærsk Guardian is Fayard’s first all-over contract on a drilling rig and the yard expects to win more of these projects when the new facilities at Lindø is fully inaugurated. Mærsk Guardian was delivered from Hitachi Zosen, Japan, in 1986 and was the first in a series of harsh environment jack-up rigs. The rig measures 80x90 metres and has 157 metres high “legs.”
“It’s always up to the customer where to repair the ship or the rig. So when Maersk Drilling decided to tow the rig from Norwegian waters to Hirtshals we consider it a normal challenge”, says Thomas Andersen, owner of Fayard.
Mærsk Guardian is Fayard’s first all-over contract on a drilling rig and the yard expects to win more of these projects when the new facilities at Lindø is fully inaugurated. Mærsk Guardian was delivered from Hitachi Zosen, Japan, in 1986 and was the first in a series of harsh environment jack-up rigs. The rig measures 80x90 metres and has 157 metres high “legs.”