Kanuni (drillship)
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| History | |
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 Turkey | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Suleiman the Magnificent, known as Kanunî, "lawgiver" |
| Owner |
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| Operator |
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| Builder | Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje, South Korea |
| Launched | 2012 |
| In service | 2012–2015, 2020– |
| Out of service | 2015–2020 |
| Identification |
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| 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 |
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]
Name[edit]
Kanuni means "law-related", "legal" in Turkish and can be used in a wider range of related meanings. The word derives from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), which comes from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn).[3]
The three drillships of the state-owned Turkish gas company, Fatih, Yavuz and Kanuni, are named after the most famous conquerors and rulers of the Ottoman Empire: Mehmed II, Turkish: Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Mehmed the Conqueror, who conquered Constantinople in 1453; Selim I (r. 1512-1520), known as Selim the Resolute, Turkish: Yavuz Sultan Selim, who hugely expanded his empire; and Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566), known in Turkish as Kanunî Sultan Süleyman ("the Lawgiver"), under whom the empire reached its apex.
History[edit]
The ship was built in three years by Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje, South Korea, and finished in 2012,[4][5][6][7][8][9] and christened Sertão. She was worth around US$600 million.[9] Owned by Schahin Petroleum Gas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and flagged Marshall Islands with home port Majuro,[7] she served for the Brazilian state-owned Petrobras between 2012 and 2015.[8][10]
After the Schahin Group went bankrupt in April 2015, the U.S.-based Dleif Drilling became the new owner.[8][11] The vessel then sailed from Brazil to Teesside, North East England, where she was arrested by the Admiralty court.[9][11] The arrest of the vessel occurred to force the payment of the owner's debt.[9] 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.[11] A purchase offer for the vessel in amount of US$75 million was rejected by late November 2016.[8][11] In 2017, her name was changed to NS37 / Sertão.[7]
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.[12] The state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation, TPAO acquired the drillship for US$37.5 million winning the bidding.[5][8][10] 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][10] Kanuni is the third drillship of Turkey after Fatih (ex Deepsea Metro II) and Yavuz (ex Deepsea Metro I).[8]
Characteristics[edit]
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.[4][7][8] The vessel is able to carry out drilling high-pressure, high-temperature wells up to 11,400 m (37,400 ft) depth at a sea depth up to 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in pre-salt layer fields.[5][6][12]
See also[edit]
- Fatih (ex Deepsea Metro II), Turkey's first drillship (2017)
- Yavuz (ex Deepsea Metro I), Turkey's second drillship (2018)
- Abdülhamid Han (ex Cobalt Explorer), Turkey's fourth drillship (2021)
References[edit]
- ^ "Turkey's 3rd drillship, Kanuni, arrives from UK". Daily Sabah. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Üçüncü sondaj gemisi 'Kanuni' Türkiye'de". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 15 March 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ Kanuni
- ^ a b "Serao". Marine Traffic. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Doğu Akdeniz'deki çalışmaya 'Sertao' da dahil oldu!". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 9 February 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Ultra Deepwater Drilling Vessel". All Ship. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Sertao". Baltic Shipping. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g Tomic, Bartolomej. "Turkey Expands Drillship Fleet". Offshore Engineer. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Giant $600m deep water drilling ship looms over Falmouth". Cornwall Live. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
- ^ a b c "Turkey acquires 3rd drillship for $37.5 million as East Med tensions boil". Daily Sabah. 9 February 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Dlief Drilling Rejects $75 million offer for drillship sale". Offshory Energy Today. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Sertão'". Eggar Forrester. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
