Offshore staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – CGX Resources Inc., operator and joint venture partner with Frontera Energy Guyana Corp., has exercised an option to drill one additional exploration well offshore Guyana.
The work is expected to start in the first half of 2022 in direct continuation of the semisubmersible Maersk Discoverer’s contract with Shell offshore Trinidad.
With this option called, the Maersk Discoverer is fully booked throughout 2021 and part of 2022.
Maersk Drilling COO Morten Kelstrup said: “The region holds great potential and with our multiple active rigs in the area, we are well positioned to tap into the positive outlook for hydrocarbon developments in the Americas.”
The Maersk Discoverer is a DSS-21 column-stabilized dynamically positioned semisubmersible drilling rig. It is able to operate in water depths up to 10,000 ft (3,048 m).
The rig is currently drilling the Kawa-1 exploration well in the Corentyne block offshore Guyana for CGX. Following the contract with CGX, the rig will start a contract with BG International, a subsidiary of Shell, in Trinidad and Tobago.
08/30/2021
