South Sudan oil firm inks MoU with Chinese major rig manufacturer
Chinese company Tianjin Dong Fang Xian Ke Petroleum Machinery Co. Ltd (DFXK) on Thursday signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nile Drilling and Services (NDS) a subsidiary of state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation Limited (NILEPET).
The MoU will see DFXK supply workover rigs to NDS, a leading national oilfield service provider for the South Sudan Oil and Gas industry since 2015.
“This is a memorandum of Understanding to collaborate and work with DFXK, which is one of the largest manufacturers of (oil) rigs in China. We already have two of their rigs we have been using for the last three years what we call workover rigs they are the ones who manufacture them,” James Luteka Yugusuk, President of NDS told The Juba Echo on the sidelines of the ongoing Oil and Power conference in Juba.
Yugusuk disclosed that DFXK will send some of it’s expert team to South Sudan to train their engineers.
“We are doing this because they have the technology to drill; secondly they have the experience and technology transfer. As you heard earlier they are going to train our South Sudanese engineers and we are going to have also experts from DFXK who will come here and work with us in the rig,” he disclosed.
Yugusuk dubbed the partnership with the Chinese company as strategic partnership.
Local and foreign delegates attend the Oil and Power Conference at Radisson Blu Hotel.
Max Li, marketing director of Tianjin Dong Fang Xian Ke Petroleum Machinery Co. Ltd, said in 2019 they sold two rigs to NDS which is planning to purchase another two drilling rigs.
“As professional manufacturers we would like to provide fully complete support to NDS not only the equipment but also technical support,” Max said.
“First, we are planning to provide regular training course for NDS staff, secondly once it is needed we will assign some of our staff to support them on the site,” he added.
The workover rigs will be installed in Block 3 and 7 in the Paloch oil field of Upper Nile State.
Tianjin Dong Fang Xian Ke Petroleum Machinery Co. Ltd specializes in processing, manufacturing and selling an extensive range of petroleum drilling machines with 5 major categories and more than 30 specifications.
The main products consists of truck mounted drill rig, land workover rig, trailer mounted drill rig, electric workover rig, drilling waste management system, solid control system, well site electricity system, oil and water supply system.
