Aker BP books Maersk rig for North Sea Valhall interventions
March 29, 2021
Aker BP has contracted Maersk Drilling’s jackup Maersk Reacher for well intervention, stimulation, and accommodation services at the Valhall field in the southern Norwegian North Sea.
(Courtesy Maersk Drilling)
The jackup drilling rig Maersk Reacher.
Offshore staff
LYNGBY, Denmark – Aker BP has contracted Maersk Drilling’s jackup Maersk Reacher for well intervention, stimulation, and accommodation services at the Valhall field in the southern Norwegian North Sea.
The 270-day, $33.4-million contract is due to start in July, with options to add up to 90 days of additional intervention work at the field.
The Maersk Reacher is contracted under a frame agreement both companies entered into in 2017.
It is currently warm-stacked in Frederikshavn, Denmark, after finishing a program offshore Norway last April. The rig will be reactivated with reduced drilling equipment and a focus on an optimized well intervention/stimulation set-up – including a smaller crew compared to standard drilling mode.
The 350-ft (107-m), Gusto-engineered MSC CJ50 rig was delivered in 2009.
