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    1. Drilling & Completion

    TAQA expands UKCS platform drilling deal with Odfjell

    March 19, 2021
    TAQA has awarded Odfjell Drilling (UK) Ltd. a five-year contract to provide platform drilling and maintenance services on its UK North Sea installations.
    (Courtesy Odfjell Drilling)
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    Offshore staff

    ABERDEEN, UK – TAQA has awarded Odfjell Drilling (UK) Ltd. a five-year contract to provide platform drilling and maintenance services on its North Sea installations including North Cormorant, Harding, Tern Alpha, Brae Alpha, and East Brae. 

    The company is the incumbent contractor for three of these installations under a contract awarded in 2017. This new agreement will replace the existing contract, with the addition of Brae Alpha and East Brae. The new contract will be effective from June 15, 2021. 

    (Courtesy Odfjell Drilling)
    The semisubmersible Deepsea Atlantic.
    The semisubmersible Deepsea Atlantic.

    Also, Equinor has exercised one new well for the semisubmersible Deepsea Atlantic. The well has been exercised under the continued optionality mechanism in the contract entered into between the parties in May 2018, as part of the overall master frame agreement.

    The work is expected to start after the completion of the current scope estimated to be in 2Q/3Q 2021.

    03/19/2021