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ABS Surveyor John J. Kim stationed in Brownsville, Texas, attends the recent launching of Diamond Offshore’s Ocean Scepter jackup.  The KeppelFELS Super B Class design is ABS classed and scheduled for deployment in the Gulf of Mexico.  

The Ocean Scepter is classed as an A1 Self-Elevating Drilling Unit, CDS.  The Certified Drilling System or CDS notation is optional. The ABS Guide for the Certification of Drilling Systems incorporates or references the latest industry and international standards and the recommendations of the American Petroleum Institute (API). Full compliance with relative API sections for the drilling systems may result in ABS granting the optional class notation ‘CDS’.

The jackup legs on the Ocean Scepter are 486 feet in length allowing the unit to operate in water depths of up to 350 feet; the legs can be lowered by means of an electrically powered rack-and-pinion jacking system.  The estimated delivery date for the rig is February 2008. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

water depth.