Keppel FELS - Design, Engineering and Construction

Established in 1967, Keppel FELS Limited is today the leading designer and builder of sophisticated mobile offshore drilling rigs.

As the wholly owned offshore arm of Keppel Offshore and Marine (KOM), Keppel FELS has at its disposal a strategic network of 17 KOM yards worldwide - allowing it to practice a "near market - near customer" strategy.

THE GLOBAL LEADER IN MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING RIG DESIGN

With a growing pool of repeat customers, technological leadership, and a committed workforce, Keppel FELS strengthens its position as the provider of choice and partner in solutions for design and engineering solutions, shipyard services and products to the offshore oil and gas industries and to customers operating in diverse offshore environments.

Through proprietary technology, engineering expertise and execution skills, it is the world leader in the construction of jack-up rigs, having built almost 60% of jack-ups on order in the last decade.

It offers a suite of proprietary rig designs such as the KFELS A Class, KFELS B Class, KFELS C Class and KFELS N Class jack-up, as well as semi submersibles - including the new generation DSS-series semi-submersibles and tension leg platforms to meet the needs of customers in deepwater drilling operations.

With its world-class facilities and apart from designing and building jack-up and semi-submersible drilling units, Keppel FELS also designs and builds floating production systems and highly sophisticated offshore support vessels.

With an enviable track record for accident free, on-time, on-budget and quality deliveries and coupled with a highly skilled workforce, Keppel FELS will continually build on this reputation as the preferred partner for the world’s offshore oil and gas industry.

It also converts, upgrades and repairs mobile offshore drilling units and floating production systems.

YARD FACILITIES

Keppel FELS operates five yards in Singapore giving a combined land area of more than 600,000m², the largest being the KFELS Pioneer Yard with 280,000m². The yards provide more than 90,000m² of covered shops and another 86,000m² of open fabrication space.

It is the only yard in its region, which has a 500t gantry crane with a 100m span straddling its entire 400,000dwt dock. Also at its disposal are three floating cranes, including the Asian Hercules II with a 3,200Mt capacity being the largest in South East Asia.

Other Facilities include:

Dry Dock:

• Admiral dock (400,000dwt) with an intermediate gate that can be placed in several positions. It measures 380m x 80m x 13m

Outfit Quay:

• Of almost 1,000m long and water depth (at zero tide) of between 8 to11m

Floating cranes:

• Asia Hercules II, 3,200t
• Asian Hercules, 1,600t
• Asian Helping Hand, 400t

Other cranes:

• Goliath Gantry Crane, 500t (100m span x 57m hook height)
• More than 40 mobile and overhead cranes of various descriptions and capacities of up to 300t

Blasting Facilities:

• Five enclosed blasting and painting halls of between 1,680m² and 1,800m² each

Cutting Facilities:

• CNC cutting machines equipped with oxy-fuel triple rotating cutting torches
• CNC underwater plasma cutting machines