Aberdeen firm KCA Deutag strikes contracts worth £388m
Aberdeenshire-based KCA Deutag – which says it is one of the world’s longest established drilling and engineering contractors – has inked platform drilling service contracts worth a collective $550 million (£388m).
The deals comprise a contract award and two contract extensions for work in the UK, Norwegian North Sea, and Russia, and will account for 13 years of contract backlog.
KCA Deutag’s Offshore division secured a five-year contract, with further extension options, with a major oil company in Russia. The award will see the local team continue to deliver platform drilling services including rig maintenance, warehousing, inventory procurement and management for three offshore platforms.
The Portlethen-based firm said the award allows it to continue to build on its integrated service model by directly managing other offshore services and providing multiskilled crews.
In addition, the UK and Norway teams have secured two separate contract extensions with longstanding customers.
KCA Deutag added that as oil and gas operators look for ways to accelerate the realisation of their environmental, social, and corporate governance goals, it plays a “pivotal” role in this transition.
"Through its group-wide products they are able to engage customers and present solution-based offerings. In the case of these recent awards, the focus has been on the assessment, monitoring
and reduction of carbon emissions by means of operational and equipment optimisation,” said the Scottish-headquartered business.
It is also continuing the rollout and implementation of its +VEDRILL technology, aimed at driving performance improvement and digitalisation of the offshore worksite.
KCA Deutag’s president of offshore Ole Maier said: "We are delighted to have been awarded these contract extensions,
which build on our longstanding relationships with our key customers. Through multiskilling of our expert rig crews, we are pleased to be able to extend our services on these platforms, alongside continuing to deliver the highest standards of operational performance for our customer.
“At the same time, we continue our development and deployment of our Well of Innovation technologies to
improve the value we deliver to our customers. This contributes to our ability to secure contracts such as these.
“Alongside this, we have and are developing new technologies as we leverage our groupwide operating, manufacturing and engineering capabilities to make our operations more energy-efficient while at the same time move into renewable energy applications as the energy transition gathers pace and scale.”
The news comes after the firm in March of this year said it had secured contract wins and extensions worth around $110m altogether for its land drilling business in Pakistan, Russia, Kurdistan, South-eastern Europe and Germany.
The firm can trace its roots back to 1888, when it was founded by entrepreneur Heinrich Lapp in Germany.