OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2011. Uralmash oil-and-gas equipment holding became a successful tenderer of Eurasia Drilling Company Ltd. for delivery of drilling rigs with load capacity of 320 ton. According to the contract Uralmash OGE Holding will deliver five rigs Uralmash 5000/320 EK-BMCh and two drilling rigs Uralmash 5000/320 ESK-BMCh to the customer.

Delivery time of four drilling rigs is III quarter 2011, the other three drilling rigs are expected in I quarter 2012.

Drilling rig Uralmash 5000/320 ESK-BMCh is designed for cluster drilling of oil and gas wells with variable-frequency electric drive of alternating current with digital control system, with processing and power equipment units in a modular configuration stationary positioned, with derrick-drawworks blocks traveling along guides within a cluster, but not more than 40 m. Drilling rig layout provides the derrick-drawworks block and cleaning unit traveling along the guide beams from well to well together with a set of drill pipes, installed on the setbacks and suspended blowout equipment. Receiving board with racks travels separately. The rest of the equipment is stationary placed.

Drilling rig Uralmash 5000/320 EK-BMCh is designed for cluster drilling of oil and gas wells with variable-frequency electric drive of alternating current with digital control system, with echelon arrangement of blocks along guides within a cluster. The drilling rig layout provides a rig system traveling along the guide beams from well to well together with a set of drill pipes installed on the setbacks and suspended blowout equipment, except for emergency power generating unit and receiving board with racks.

Both rigs with load capacity of 320 ton are capable of drilling wells up to 5 000 m deep.

Eurasia Drilling Company Ltd is the largest independent Russian drilling company regarding the number of drilled meters. The company deals with oil and gas wells repair and construction for all applications on licensed areas of LUKOIL JSC, NK Rosneft JSC, Gazpromneft JSC, TNK-BP and other oil and gas companies. "BKE" Ltd is a member of Eurasia Drilling Company Limited (EDC) Group of Companies, the shares of which are listed on London stock exchange. Production capacities of BKE are concentrated in West-Siberian, Volga-Ural, Timano-Pechorskiy regions, and the company also works in Eastern Siberia and Kazakhstan. The head office of BKE is located in Moscow.

Uralmash Oil-and-Gas Equipment Holding combines engineering and production facilities of MK Uralmash and UCP groups of companies (as the Uralmash Drilling Equipment holder) in the field of drilling equipment. The main task of holding company (due to potential consolidation available with its participants) is to satisfy the current and long-term requirements in drilling equipment taking into account the most serious requirements to engineering, quality, delivery terms of this equipment and its maintenance, and to provide leading positions for the Russian manufacturers in domestic market of heavy drilling rigs. In the future the holding company is planning promotion of Russian heavy drilling rigs to foreign markets.