Caspian Energy Group has announced that the christening ceremony for a jack-up rig “Mercury” took place on a site of “Astrakhan Shipbuilding Production Association”, in Russia.
It is the second jack-up rig assembled with facilities of “Astrakhan Shipbuilding Production Association”.
In 2013, the jack-up rig of the same type named “Neptune” left for the offshore field in the Caspian Sea. The new jack-up rig “Mercury” will also operate in the Caspian Sea at depths of up to 107 m. The rig is able to drill wells with a depth of more than 9 km.