Fairweather to manage SDC unit

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

The single steel drilling caisson stacked at Port Clarence is now under the management of Fairweather Inc., Fairweather’s Bill Penrose told PNA in mid-May.

A converted tanker that has been modified so that it can sit on the ocean floor, the SSDC was originally built and owned by Canmar. Last year, when the drilling unit was sold to Seatankers Management Co. of Oslo, Norway, the unit’s name was changed to SDC, Penrose said.

Fairweather is charged with both marketing and managing the SDC, and Penrose said Fairweather will market the SDC internationally, which will include talking to companies doing business offshore Alaska’s North Slope and in the Canadian Beaufort Sea.