Keppel FELS delivers eleventh jackup rig to Mexico

For national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos.

Keppel Offshore and Marine’s wholly owned subsidiary Keppel FELS has delivered a KFELS B Class jackup rig to Mexican national oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos.

The rig was named Kukulkan by Lady Sponsor Mrs Valerie Pahl-Hernandez, wife of Mr Gustavo Hernandez Garcia, Director General of PEMEX Exploration & Production, at a ceremony at Keppel FELS yesterday evening.

Kukulkan is the second jackup rig Keppel has built directly for PEMEX. It will join sister rig, Yunuen, which was delivered earlier this year, and another nine jackup rigs that PEMEX has chartered from drilling contractors for deployment in offshore Mexico.

Keppel also has another seven KFELS B Class jackup rigs currently under construction for Mexican companies.