That’s the Polar Pioneer, an arctic class rig built in 1985 that last operated in the Chukchi Sea in 2015. The rig was recycled in Aliaga, Turkey in 2020. The US arctic, like 96.3% of US offshore waters, is no longer open to oil and gas leasing, and was not included in the new leasing program.
The Polar Pioneer was once a good rig for sub-arctic operations, but is not at all similar to the modern drilling units that are used on the deepwater Gulf of Mexico leases that now account for 93% of OCS oil production and 76% of the natural gas. With the exception of the GoM shelf, which is laudably being gleaned by independent producers, the deepwater GoM blocks are all that is left of the once robust US offshore leasing program.
Unless the picture of the scrapped drilling rig is intended to be symbolic of the current state of the leasing program, the photo choice implies inattention to significant technical details. The document does not include a single picture of a deepwater drilling unit or production facility.
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 