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The Maersk Viking drillship will be employed by PC Gabon Upstream, a subsidiary of Petronas, for a one-well campaign in Block F13 offshore Gabon beginning in Q3 2021. The contract will last for 60 days and has a firm value of approximately $24 million.

The Elgood development well, 48/22c-H1, is the first of five planned development wells in IOG's Phase 1 project. The Noble Hans Deul jackup is expected to take approximately three months to drill and complete the well, after which the rig will move on to Blythe in early Q3 2021. 

Andium said in a statement that the new financing round will allow the company to further drive product growth, support strategic investment in talent, and enable it to accelerate the deployment of its proprietary video solutions product lines for flare monitoring, tank telemetry, and object detection. 

The contract, which began this month with a development drilling campaign at the Jubilee field offshore Ghana, has a progressive day rate structure for the full duration along with certain provisions that permit a shift to a market-linked day rate structure after an 18-month period.

The company said in a statement that the release of the reports demonstrate its efforts "to remain at the forefront of the drive for greater corporate transparency around activities that are important to investors, governments and civil society."

The alliance will provide umbilical-less operations and subsea controls for deepwater completions and interventions delivering increased operational efficiencies while minimizing safety risk through a smaller offshore footprint. Halliburton will offer Optime’s technologies as a service across its global portfolio.

The contract, which is expected to commence in December 2021 with an estimated duration of 150 days, includes five additional one-well options for work offshore Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei Darussalam. Firm contract value is $34 million.

A series of pre-agreed tests were successfully performed on Weatherford's test rig in Houston to witness and verify the integration and functionality of both systems. The rig trial is part of an agreement signed by Weatherford and Safe Influx in September 2020.

The Maersk Venturer drillship, which has been contracted for four years, is expected to drill four wells in total in 2021, consisting of two Jubilee production wells, one Jubilee water injector well and one TEN gas injector well.

Drillmar Resources has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with energy recruitment specialist JAB Recruitment to create DRILLJAB, a joint project with a view to providing staffing solutions to drilling contractors across the Americas. Supported by JAB Recruitment’s Houston office, the newly formed joint venture will enable Drillmar to extend its global footprint to the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America, while JAB Recruitment will expand its service capability in the region with further drilling expertise. “Both organizations are market leaders in their own right with a wealth of experience in recruitment and in energy,” said Drillmar Managing Director Raymond Bruce. “More importantly our business ethics and values are aligned, which we view as critical to the success of ...