Identity and specifications
- Rig type
- Drilling rig
- Rig subtype
- Drillship
- Owner
- Seadrill
- Operator
- Seadrill
- Marketing party
- Seadrill
Asset intelligence
West Vela
Seadrill · Drilling rig · last verified 28 July 2026
Identity, current state, next assignment, availability, schedule history and evidence are separated so unknowns are not flattened into public claims.
Current commercial state
- Current-state verification
- Working
- Customer
- Talos
- Region
- U.S. Gulf of Mexico
- Current assignment starts
- Schedule not disclosed
- Current assignment ends
- Schedule not disclosed
- Confidence
- A
No current assignment evidence is represented for this asset.
Next assignment
- Customer
- No Follow-On Assignment Identified
- Region
- Region not verified
- Start date
- Schedule not disclosed
- End date
- Schedule not disclosed
- Schedule status
- Status under review
No verified follow-on assignment has been published.
Availability assessment
- Commercial availability
- Working
- Commercial completeness
- A
- Technical profile
- Partial
- Last verified
- 28 July 2026
A current firm or committed assignment covers the present date.
Availability evidence
Source title: Seadrill Fleet Status Report
Organization: Seadrill
Publication date: 11 May 2026
Retrieval date: 28 July 2026
Excerpt: West Vela 2013 Drillship U.S. Gulf Talos May-26 Aug-26 Apr-26 total contract value at signing was ~$26m, excluding additional services
Document hash: 4d44d918b5c435e5df9aec3e413580e92db79f453254d69c8e7f5236deb3395a
Verified schedule history
1 assignmentsTalos
U.S. Gulf of Mexico
May 2026 – Aug 2026
Schedule evidence
Source title: Seadrill Fleet Status Report
Organization: Seadrill
Publication date: 11 May 2026
Retrieval date: 19 July 2026
Page/section: Page not identified
Excerpt: West Vela 2013 Drillship U.S. Gulf Talos May-26 Aug-26 Apr-26 total contract value at signing was ~$26m, excluding additional services
Document hash: 4d44d918b5c435e5df9aec3e413580e92db79f453254d69c8e7f5236deb3395a
Claim status: Firm
Open sourceSignalSpore-detected changes
Historical event, future transition and data correction are separatedNo source-delta market changes for this asset yet.
Coverage and freshness
Evidence drawers preserve source organization, document title, source document hash, excerpt, page/section and claim status separately from current state and historical changes.
Regional movements: No verified regional movement event has been published for this asset.