Kanuni (drillship)

Kanuni (ex NS37/ Sertão) is a Turkey-flagged sixth-generation ultra deepwater drillship owned and operated by the Turkish Petroleum Corporation. She is Turkey's third drillship.[1][2]

History
Turkey
Name:
  • Kanuni (2020)
  • NS37 / Sertão (2017)
  • Sertão (2013)
Namesake: Suleiman the Magnificent, known as Kanunî, "lawgiver"
Owner:
Operator:
Builder: Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje, South Korea
Launched: 2012
In service: 2012–2015, 2020–
Out of service: 2015–2020
Identification:
Status: In active service
General characteristics
Tonnage:
Length: 227.81 m (747.4 ft)
Beam: 42 m (138 ft)
Draft: 14.5 m (48 ft)
Armament: None

History

The ship was built in three years by Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje, South Korea, and finished in 2012,[3][4][5][6][7][8] and christened Sertão. She was worth around US$600 million.[8] Owned by Schahin Petroleum Gas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and flagged Marshall Islands with home port Majuro,[6] she served for the Brazilian state-owned Petrobras between 2012 and 2015.[7][9]

After the Schahin Group went bankrupt in April 2015, the U.S.-based Dleif Drilling became the new owner.[7][10] The vessel then sailed from Brazil to Teesside, North East England, where she was arrested by the Admiralty court.[8][10] The arrest of the vessel occurred to force the payment of the owner's debt.[8] Dleif Drilling tasked the Dutch offshore consulting company Okeanos BV and the ship management company V-Ships Cyprus with PB Consultants Ltd from Scotland offshore brokering and advisory company Pareto Offshore AS of Norway to find a future employment. The vessel was then listed for sale.[10] A purchase offer for the vessel in amount of US$75 million was rejected by late November 2016.[7][10] In 2017, her name was changed to NS37 / Sertão.[6]

After the vessel was idled and warm stacked for nearly two years, the Admiralty Marshal of the United Kingdom opened a request for tender in mid January 2020 that was run by the broker CW Kellock & Co. Ltd.[11] The state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation, TPAO acquired the drillship for US$37.5 million winning the bidding.[4][7][9] Renamed Kanuni, she arrived in the territorial waters of Turkey in Eastern Mediterranean on 13 March 2020 after her 18-day journey departing from Port Talbot in Wales, United Kingdom.[2][9] Kanuni is the third drillship of Turkey after Fatih (ex Deepsea Metro II) and Yavuz (ex Deepsea Metro I).[7]

Characteristics

The sixth-generation ultra-deepwater drillship is 227.81 m (747.4 ft) long, has a beam of 42 m (138 ft), a draft of 14.5 m (48 ft), and her tonnage are 60,316 GT and 61,619 DWT.[3][6][7] The vessel is able to carry out drilling high-pressure, high-temperature wells up to 3,000 m (9,800 ft) depth at a sea depth up to 11,400 m (37,400 ft) in pre-salt layer fields.[4][5][11]

See also
  • Fatih (ex Deepsea Metro II)
  • Yavuz (ex Deepsea Metro I)

References
  1. "Turkey's 3rd drillship, Kanuni, arrives from UK". Daily Sabah. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  2. "Üçüncü sondaj gemisi 'Kanuni' Türkiye'de". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 15 March 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  3. "Serao". Marine Traffic. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  4. "Doğu Akdeniz'deki çalışmaya 'Sertao' da dahil oldu!". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 9 February 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  5. "Ultra Deepwater Drilling Vessel". All Ship. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  6. "Sertao". Baltic Shipping. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  7. Tomic, Bartolomej. "Turkey Expands Drillship Fleet". Offshore Engineer. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  8. "Giant $600m deep water drilling ship looms over Falmouth". Cornwall Live. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  9. "Turkey acquires 3rd drillship for $37.5 million as East Med tensions boil". Daily Sabah. 9 February 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  10. "Dlief Drilling Rejects $75 million offer for drillship sale". Offshory Energy Today. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  11. "Sertão'". Eggar Forrester. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
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