The company has secured Maersk Drilling jack-up Maersk Endurer, which arrived in Cameroon last month after being transported aboard Dockwise’s Black Marlin barge from Cyprus.
Before that, the rig was working for Petrobel in Egypt’s Red Sea under a seven-year charter before undergoing life extension work in Egypt and being transported to Cyprus.
Glencore had been due to take delivery of Maersk Endurer at the start of January but a Maersk Drilling spokesman said Petrobel’s contract was extended “in order to drill an additional well”.
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