Maersk Drilling Secures 4-Year Contract with Tullow Ghana for Drillship | Gulf Coast Oil Rig Equipment & Repair
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a four year contract for the Maersk Venturer deepwater drillship by Tullow Ghana Ltd.
The contract, which was signed in December 2017, is expected to commence in February and covers development drilling on the Jubilee and TEN fields offshore Ghana.
Maersk Venturer is currently in transit for the job.
”I am very pleased that Maersk Drilling will be mobilizing another deepwater rig for this significant job in a strategically important region,” Lars Ostergaard, Maersk Drilling chief buy severe service valves commercial officer, said in a BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast statement.
“It is our first contract with Tullow Ghana and it is a testament to our successful operational track record in Ghana. We are firmly committed to supporting Tullow Ghana’s business through safe and efficient drilling operations,” he added.
The latest contract win for Maersk Drilling follows a 196 day contract extension for the jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid by Total E&P Norge AS, which was announced on December 19, 2017.
Intrepid has been on contract for Total on the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea since 2014. The contract extension will commence in September and covers accommodation work for hook-up and commissioning of the Martin Linge oil rig flanges gulf coast production topside, as well as potential drilling operations.