ABB has secured an order to deliver total power solutions to Ocean Rig’s two seventh generation new integrated design mobile offshore drilling units (MODU) that is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) at Goeje shipyard in Korea, the company said in a news release.

The contract includes an option to extend the delivery to two additional vessels.

ABB’s scope of delivery to the ultradeepwater (UDW) drillships includes total power and propulsion solutions for drilling and propulsion, system engineering and project management, calculations, analysis and interface coordination and site management and commissioning service, the release said. The drilling vessels will be delivered to Ocean Rig in 2017.

With the latest order included, 11 of Ocean Rig’s drillships feature ABB’s integrated marine solutions.

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