Keppel Offshore & Marine, Brownsville TX

(formerly Marathon LeTourneau and AMFELS)

Marathon LeTourneau's Brownsville shipyard was sold in 1985 to local interests and then in 1991 to Keppel FELS (now Keppel Offshore & Marine), which renamed it AMFELS and re-entered the rigbuilding business.  It no longer has its own web site: you have to go to the parent company - www.keppelfels.com.sg - whose web site scarcely mentions AMFELS.  Great marketing.  Although "AMFELS" has now been dropped from the name, that's still what everyone calls it.  See an aerial view of the yard on Google here.  Note that LeTourneau had a single series of hull numbers regardless of where a rig was built: the list below is believed to be complete, despite the many breaks in the numbering.  See the LeTourneau table for the full list.

Hull # Original Name Original Owner Rig Type GT Price ($mm) Delivery Disposition
Built by Marathon LeTourneau
41 BND Tug No. 1 Brownsville Nav. Dist. Towboat      1972 Active
42 BND Tug No. 2 Brownsville Nav. Dist. Towboat      1972 Active
  Ste. Genevieve Norman Bros. Towboat      1972 Now "Landon Young"
  John C. Byrd Ole Man River Towing Towboat      1973 Now "Thomas Golding"
  Tallahatchie W. & M. Transportation Towboat      1974 Now "Bethany Dawn"
58 Pentagone 82 Forex Neptune Semi-Submersible   23 Oct-73 Now Pride Mexico
66 Penrod 71 Penrod Drilling Semi-Submersible 21,503   Feb-75 Now Petrobras 27
67 Penrod 72 Penrod Drilling Semi-Submersible 20,390 20 Sep-75 Now Molly Brown
73 Penrod 75 Penrod Drilling Semi-Submersible 20,048   Aug-76 Now Estesco
88 Shenandoah Atwood Oceanics Jack-Up 5,403   Nov-75 Now Kedarnath
93 Key Largo Key International Jack-Up 7,345   May-76 Now Pride Wisconsin
96 Penrod 68 Penrod Drilling Jack-Up 7,208   Oct-76 Now Ensco 68
117 W. D. Kent Reading & Bates Jack-Up 5,837   Jul-77 Active
123 Texas Star   Jack-Up     Dec-77 Now Perro Negro 4
126 Galveston Key Key International Jack-Up 6,100   Jul-78 Now GSF Galveston Key
129 Mr. Dave Fluor Drilling Jack-Up 4,158   Nov-78 Now Ocean Columbia
130 Randolph Yost Reading & Bates Jack-Up 4,702   Feb-79 Active
132 Western Triton II Western Oceanic Jack-Up 4,572   Jun-79 Now Noble Earl Frederickson
137 Western Triton III Western Oceanic Jack-Up 3,847   Nov-79 Now Sonora
138 Gulfstream Chiles Offshore Jack-Up 2,272 30 Aug-79 Now Rig 26
144 Trident IV Sedco Forex Jack-Up 5,876   Mar-80 Active
146 Keyes 250 Keyes Drilling Jack-Up 4,072   May-80 Now Ensco 97
152 Gulfwind Chiles Offshore Jack-Up 2,503   Aug-80 Wrecked 2005
158 Key Manhattan Key International Jack-Up 6,334   Dec-80 Now GSF Key Manhattan
160 Glomar High Island V Global Marine Jack-Up 4,659   Feb-81 Now GSF High Island V
161 Glomar Adriatic I Global Marine Jack-Up 4,776   Jun-81 Now GSF Adriatic I
162 Glomar Adriatic II Global Marine Jack-Up 4,776   Sep-81 Now GSF Adriatic II
165 Penrod 86 Penrod Drilling Jack-Up 4,783   Dec-81 Now Ensco 86
168 Penrod 88 Penrod Drilling Jack-Up 4,783   Mar-82 Now Ensco 88
169 Penrod 90 Penrod Drilling Jack-Up 4,783   Jun-82 Now Ensco 90
182 Seabee Chiles Offshore Jack-Up 4,843   Nov-82 Now Noble Tom Jobe
212 Glomar Baltic I Global Marine Jack-Up 10,529   Dec-83 Now GSF Baltic I
213 Penrod 98 Penrod Drilling Jack-Up 5,897