Aban may lose its drill ship contract

10 Sep 2009 Evaluate

Aban Offshore, the Chennai-based drilling firm, is likely to lose a contract for its drill ship ‘Aban Abraham’ for deployment at an offshore field in Ghana, Africa, for developing the Jubilee Field. The 33-year-old drill ship was contracted to Kosmos Energy for the field’s development from September 1 to October 21 at a rate of $300,000 a day (about Rs 14.6 crore a day).

 

The loss of the contract would make a dent of about Rs 743.5 crore in the current financial year’s revenues. The company had reported net sales of Rs 3,050 core for 2008-09. Its profit for the period was Rs 540 crore.

 

The drill ship had developed some technical problem about four months ago and was under repair and maintenance. Aban may have to compensate Kosmos for not making the drill ship available in time.

 

About two weeks ago, the company announced the deployment of four of its seven idle jack up rigs — three in West Asia for three years and one in Latin America for over 25 months. Revenue from the West Asian contract is expected to be Rs 2,925 crore and the contract for Latin America would fetch the company Rs 446 crore.crackcrack

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