''Kanuni'' (ex ''NS37/ Sertão'') is a

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sixth-generation ultra deepwater

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owned and operated by the Turkish Petroleum Corporation. She is Turkey's third drillship.

Name

Kanuni means "law-related", "legal" in Turkish and can be used in a wider range of related meanings. The word derives from

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قَانُون (qānūn), which comes from

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κανών (kanṓn).Kanuni
/ref> The three drillships of the state-owned Turkish gas company, Fatih, Yavuz and Kanuni, are named after the most famous conquerors and rulers of the

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: Mehmed II, Turkish: Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Mehmed the Conqueror, who conquered Constantinople in 1453;

Selim I Selim I ( ota, سليم الأول; tr, I. Selim; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute ( tr, links=no, Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite las ...

(r. 1512-1520), known as Selim the Resolute, Turkish: Yavuz Sultan Selim, who hugely expanded his empire; and

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ ...

(r. 1520-1566), known in Turkish as Kanunî Sultan Süleyman ("the Lawgiver"), under whom the empire reached its apex.

History

The ship was built in three years by

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, and finished in 2012, and christened ''Sertão''. She was worth around US$600 million. Owned by Schahin Petroleum Gas in

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, Brazil, and flagged

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with home port

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, she served for the Brazilian state-owned Petrobras between 2012 and 2015. After the Schahin Group went bankrupt in April 2015, the U.S.-based Dleif Drilling became the new owner. The vessel then sailed from Brazil to

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, North East England, where she was arrested by the Admiralty court. The arrest of the vessel occurred to force the payment of the owner's debt. Dleif Drilling tasked the Dutch offshore consulting company Okeanos BV and the ship management company V-Ships Cyprus with PB Consultants Ltd from Scotland offshore brokering and advisory company Pareto Offshore AS of Norway to find a future employment. The vessel was then listed for sale. A purchase offer for the vessel in amount of US$75 million was rejected by late November 2016. In 2017, her name was changed to ''NS37 / Sertão''. After the vessel was idled and warm stacked for nearly two years, the Admiralty Marshal of the United Kingdom opened a

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in mid January 2020 that was run by the broker CW Kellock & Co. Ltd. The state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation, TPAO acquired the

for US$37.5 million winning the bidding. Renamed ''Kanuni'', she arrived in the

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of Turkey in Eastern Mediterranean on 13 March 2020 after her 18-day journey departing from

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, United Kingdom. ''Kanuni'' is the third drillship of Turkey after '' Fatih'' (ex ''Deepsea Metro II'') and '' Yavuz'' (ex ''Deepsea Metro I'').

Characteristics

The sixth-generation ultra-deepwater drillship is long, has a beam of , a draft of , and her tonnage are and . The vessel is able to carry out drilling high-pressure, high-temperature wells up to depth at a sea depth up to in

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fields.

References

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