Showing posts with label Atwood Oceanics. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Uusia kalustotilauksia

Atwood Oceanics Announces Construction of Two Jack-Up Drilling Units
ATWOOD OCEANICS, INC., a Houston-based International Drilling Contractor (NYSE: ATW), announced today that on October 1, 2010, Atwood Oceanics Pacific Limited ("AOPL"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (the "Company"), executed turnkey construction agreements with PPL Shipyard PTE LTD ("PPL") to construct two (2) Pacific Class 400 jack-up drilling units. These new rigs will have a rated water depth of 400 feet, accommodations for 150 personnel and significant offline handling features. The two (2) rigs are scheduled for delivery September 30 and December 31, 2012, respectively. The total cost, including project management, drilling and handling tools, spares and capitalized interest, of each high specification rig approximates $190 million. Financing for the construction of these two rigs is expected to be provided from a combination of ongoing cash flows of AOPL and debt, as necessary, from AOPL's current senior credit facilities. The Company will consider whether any additional debt may be necessary in connection with fleet expansion.


Noiden lisäksi Maersk on ilmeisesti viimeistelemässä sopimusta kahdesta uudesta Keppelin N-luokan, eli erityisesti Norjan Pohjanmerelle suunnitellusta jackupista. Lisäksi eräs romanialainen yhtiö suunnittelee porauslaivan rakentamista Romaniassa.

Tätä se löysä raha teettää: heikoimmillekin yhtiöille riittää rahaa ja he käyttävät sen typerästi. Ei Maerskin tilaus varsinaisesti ole typerä sillä Statoil on julkisesti valitellut sitä että heidän tarvitsemiaan matalan veden aluksia ei ole tarjolla riittävästi. Maerskin sopimukset ovat kyllä olleet varsin heikkoja viimevuosina.

Atwoodin tilaus on kyllä typerä sillä nuo ovat ihan perus ultra premium jackuppeja ja niiden hinta ei ole edullinen. Atwood on aimminkin kunnostautunut oudoilla hankinnoilla tilaamalla ainoana yhtiönä maailmassa ei-dp semin 2000-luvulla. Ehkä tämä oli jonkinlainen outo tapa puolustautua vihamieliselltä ostoyritykseltä: Haisunäätä ruiskii pahanhajuista eritettä ja ATW polttaa osakkeiden omistajien rahoja heikosti.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Kaksi uutta floater-sopimusta

Atwood Oceanics Announces Six-Month Contract Extension for the Atwood Eagle
ATWOOD OCEANICS, INC., a Houston-based International Drilling Contractor (NYSE: ATW), announced today that the ATWOOD EAGLE (operated by our wholly-owned subsidiary Atwood Australian Waters Drilling Pty Ltd) has been awarded a six-month contract extension by Chevron Australia Pty Ltd pursuant to the existing contract. With this option exercised, the rig's current contract commitment will be extended until six months beyond the delivery of the ATWOOD OSPREY to Chevron Australia, which is anticipated to occur during the first quarter of calendar year 2011. The new dayrate for the ATWOOD EAGLE will be approximately $390,000 (subject to change due to currency exchange provisions in the contract).


Hyvä dr 5000-jalkaiselle parikymppiselle.

Contract for MÆRSK DELIVERER

Maersk Drilling has today signed a contract with the African Petroleum Corporation for a 2 well programme in the Gulf of Guinea for the ultra deepwater development semi-submersible, MÆRSK DELIVERER. The programme will commence in the second quarter of 2011 in direct continuation of another assignment in West Africa. The two wells are expected to have a combined duration of around 100 days.

Alus valmistunut keväällä eli on upouusi. Ensimmäinen sopimus oli kai jonkinlainen hätäratkaisu ja sen päivätaksa oli huhujen mukaan n. $390 000, mikä varsin huono noin kykenevälle alukselle. Tämän uuden taksa lienee n. 410-430 000 dollaria per päivä.


Tarjontaa ei-vaativaan ympäristön(benign environment) aluksista riittää, joten öljy-yhtiöillä ei ole nyt tarvetta sitoutua pitkiin sopimuksiin. Tilanne tulee pahentumaan ensi vuonna, kun markkinoille tulle pari kymmentä sopimuksetonta uutta alusta ja vanhojen aluksien sopimuksia päättyy. Sanotaanko että "mielenkiintoisin" tapaus on Dryships, jolle pitäisi valmistua ensi vuonna neljä porauslaivaa, joista yhdelläkään ei ole sopimusta sekä yhtiön toisen puoliuppoavan Eirik Rauden sopimus Tullowin kanssa päättyy ensi kesänä. Aika hassusti on yhtiö otsikoinut sivun, olisiko peräti itseironiaa?



UDW-aluksien dr:t menevät todennäköisesti selvästi alle $400 000 ensi vuonna, joten DRYS näyttäisi olevan liemessä, sillä yhtiö on maksanut porauslaivoista yli $800 miljoonaa kappale. Yhtiö näyttäisi saavan n. 6% korolla lainaa markkinoilta, mutta matalilla dr:llä ja korkeilla hankintahinnoilla ei osakkeenomistajille jää juuri mitään. Punaiselle Ekille (Raudelle) todennäköisesti löytyy sopimus Norjasta, sillä se on vaativan ympäristön alus.

Konsolidaatiota on edessä piakoin. Onhan sitä takanakin(SDRL-Scorpion, Rowan-Skeie, Noble-Frontier), mutta tulevien kauppojen arvo tulee todennäköisesti olemaan selvästi suurempi kuin alkuvuodesta tehtyjen.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Uutisia

Upstream: Montara slick polluting Indonesian waters

HSN: Tanker new building orders at lowest point in 30 years

Upstream: GNPC eyes Jubilee for itself

Upstream: Sinopec joins Jubilee bidding frenzy

Ecuador to Europe: Pay us not to drill in Amazon

Tyhmä ei ole se joka pyytää...

Petrobras To Pay BRL2.06 Bln Special Tax At Marlim Field

Yllä oleva kommentti pätee ehkä myös tässä. Petrobras: Kaikkien brasilialaisten ikioma lypsylehmä.

Rigzone: Atwood's Richmond to Drill 1 Well in US GOM

Sopimuksen dr $32 500. Atwoodin mukaan Richmondin päivittäiset operointikustannukset ovat n. $40 000, sopimus siis ilmeisesti katteeton.

BT: BW Offshore sees market improving, contracts back

Kelluvan tuotannon markkinoille tunki parin vuoden aikana liuta uusi yhtiöitä joista osa on nyt mennyt nurin (mm. PetroProd). Sektori ei ole lähellekkään yhtä dynaaminen kuin poraus(FPSO/FSO-sopimuksien kestot jopa yli 10 vuotta), mutta kuten syvän veden porauksessa tai itseasiassa osittain syvän veden porauksen vuoksi kasvua pitäisi olla odotettavissa selvästi tulevina vuosina. Matalat (sukkula)tankkeri-taksat ymmärtääkseni vaikuttavat merkittävässä määrin kelluvan tuotannon kannattavuuteen.
Alla oleva kuva on lainattu Prosafe Productionin lokakuun alun RS Platou-presentaatiosta. BWO on muuten ProPro:n ja Nexus Floating Productionin suurin osakkeen omistaja.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Uutisia

Iso erä, mutta paljon mielenkiintoista asiaa:

BP Makes Nineteenth Oil Discovery in Ultra-Deepwater Block 31 Angola
"Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP Exploration (Angola) Limited today announced the 'Tebe' oil discovery in ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola

This is the nineteenth discovery made by BP in Block 31 and is located in the southern portion of Block 31 some 350 kilometres northwest of Luanda and about 12 kilometres to the south east of the Hebe discovery.

Tebe was drilled in a water depth of 1752 metres and reached a total depth of 3325 metres below sea level. The well results confirmed the capacity of the reservoir to flow in excess of 5,000 barrels a day under production conditions."


Toreador sticks with French play
"Toreador Resources is refining its focus to concentrate solely on France's onshore play after selling off its Turkish and Hungarian operations in a deal worth a combined $16.4 million..."

"Toreador's chief executive Craig McKenzie said: "We expect that the proceeds of these transactions will enable us to continue repurchasing a portion of our convertible notes, and to continue delivering our corporate strategy to develop the low-risk conventional exploration of our French acreage and to plan our 'proof of concept' phase for the unconventional exploitation of the Paris basin oil shale."


Yhtiön johto ei vakuuta, mutta tässä saattaa olla jotain. Tai sitten ei. OOIP on Paris basinissa merkittävä, joten jos yhtiö saisi nostettua talteenottoa voisi sillä olla merkittävä vaikutus. Alueella operoivat myös Vermilion Energy Trust ja Lundin Petroleum. Vermilion taitaa olla nykyään Ranskan suurin öljyntuottaja.

Big find spurs California dreamin'

"A few years ago, Occidental Petroleum Corp. executive Stephen Chazen sounded like a cryptologist out of a Dan Brown novel as he told investors that an oil bonanza awaited any outfit that could “crack the code” of California's seismically fractured underground.

Occidental's engineers may have done it.

The Los Angeles-based company revealed in July that it had found 150 million to 250 million barrels of oil and natural gas in an undisclosed part of Kern County using techniques that the oil company's executives would rather not talk about. It was California's biggest find in 35 years.

Some experts say it could herald a period of new exploration in California and the U.S..."

"Occidental has mainly been drilling in Elk Hills, where it owns an 80 percent stake, and two nearby oil fields — Asphalto and Buena Vista — where it had acquired drilling rights, Leggate said. The most intriguing possibility, he said, was that Occidental found a rare instance in which seismic activity had shoved oil-rich strata a mile or two deeper than in nearby fields, thus hiding the oil from previous drillers.

“In our view, Oxy's declared discovery may only scratch the surface of the ultimate potential of its acreage in the San Joaquin basin,” Leggate said. “We suggest the resource potential could reasonably exceed 1 billion barrels."


TransCanada to build $1.2B Ont. power plant
"TransCanada Corp. added to its growing suite of electricity generation, announcing Monday it will build a $1.2 billion power plant in southern Ontario.

Better known for its vast Canadian network of natural gas pipelines, TransCanada said it will build, own and operate the 900-megawatt plant near Oakville, Ont. The plant will be fired by natural gas and start producing electricity by 2013..."


Refiners May Violate Credit Terms as U.S. Fuel Demand Sputters
" Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. refiners may fail to meet financial requirements of their credit agreements later this year as slumping fuel demand erodes the profitability of making gasoline and diesel.

Independent refiners, which don’t have oil and natural-gas wells to fall back on, are being pushed to the brink of violating performance covenants of their loans, said Scott Van Bergh, energy banking chief for the Americas at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. Bankers and analysts say Western Refining Inc., Tesoro Corp. and Alon USA Energy Inc. are among those fuel makers at risk of failing to meet debt terms..."


ATWOOD OCEANICS Announces Drilling Program for ATWOOD BEACON
"a Houston-based International Drilling Contractor, announced that the ATWOOD BEACON (owned and operated by our wholly-owned subsidiary, Atwood Oceanics Pacific Limited) has been awarded a contract by Hess Equatorial Guinea, Inc. to drill offshore Equatorial Guinea under a firm program of six (6) wells (estimated to take 240 days to complete) with options to extend the program to drill up to six additional wells. If all options are exercised, the drilling program could be extended for another 240 days.

The contract provides for an operating dayrate for all firm and option wells of $110,000 plus a mobilization fee of $950,000. In anticipation of this contract award, the rig had previously been relocated from India to Singapore; whereby, it is currently loaded on a dry transport vessel for the mobilization to Equatorial Guinea, which will take approximately thirty (30) days..."


Atwood kuuluu huonojen sopimusneuvottelijoiden joukkoon Priden kanssa ja tämä kyllä näyttää heikolta sopimukselta. Beacon on 6 vuotta vanha ultra premium 400 jalan jaloilla.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Out of work

Upstream: Atwood rig does not see work until June

"Offshore driller Atwood Oceanics said it does not expect to receive any contract for one of its rigs till 30 June, as low oil and gas prices continue to hit oil companies right through the first half of the year..."


The Southern Cross was build in 1976 and has maximum water depth rating of 2000 feet and max drilling depth of 20 000 ft.