Total Awards Maersk Contract for Three Angola Wells
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Total E&P Angola (NYSE: TOT) has awarded Maersk Drilling (OTCMKTS: DDRLF) a three-well contract for the Maersk Voyager drillship.
Under the estimated 140-day contract, the Maersk Voyager will drill three development wells in Angola’s Block 17, Maersk Drilling reported Tuesday in a written statement. The drilling contractor added the approximate firm value of the contract is US$30 million, including integrated drilling services.
“We are delighted to add three more wells to Maersk Voyager’s work scope in Angola where our operations were re-started in late August following a suspension period due to the restrictions imposed to combat the global pandemic,” commented Maersk Drilling CEO Morten Kelstrup.
According to the drilling contractor, the two one-well options included in the drillship’s previously agreed work scope for Total E&P remain. The Maersk Voyager commenced operations offshore Angola for Total E&P in January of this year, the firm added. A Bloomberg article posted to Rigzone at the time stated the drillship would be used to “drill the world’s deepest offshore well.”
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“We’re happy to go back to work in collaboration with the local partners we have engaged to support the campaign,” stated Kelstrup.
Delivered in 2014, Maersk Voyager is a high-spec ultra-deepwater drillship that has been operating offshore Africa for five years, Maersk Drilling noted. The Samsung 96K-designed vessel previously was under contract to Eni (NYSE: E) off Ghana and can drill to 40,000 feet (12,000 meters) in up to 12,000 feet (3,657 meters) of water, the firm’s website states.
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