ABB has won orders worth US $160m from Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd. for the design, supply, supervision of installation, testing and commissioning of the main electrical systems for seven drillships that will operate on deepwater fields offshore Brazil. The orders were booked in 4Q 2012 and 1Q 2013. ABB’s electrical package will provide a power supply to subsystems onboard the drillships. The vessels are being built by Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz at the company’s shipyard on the central eastern coast of Espirito Santo, Brazil. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard. ABB’s scope of supply includes electrical systems including generators, distribution switchboards, transformers, drives, and motors to power the ships’ thrusters and drilling systems. Equipment deliveries to the shipyard are scheduled for 2013, with the first vessel to be delivered in Q2 2015. The drillships will be delivered to Sete Brazil and then chartered to Petrobras for 15 years.
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