Neptune Discoverer: PDVSA pays bills for drill ship
PDVSA pays bills for Neptune drillship
Venezuela state-owned PDVSA caught up on payments owed to Jasper Investments unit Neptune Marine & Drilling for use of the drillship Neptune Discoverer.
The payments cover “all invoices due for day rates for drilling services,” Neptune Marine said in a statement emailed to Bloomberg News.
PDVSA owed the company $19 million, Singapore-based Jasper said in a securities filing 14 January.
PDVSA has been facing rising tension with suppliers including Ensco International and Helmerich & Payne over invoices the company has not paid.
The Neptune Discoverer arrived in Venezuela on 10 June last year, according to Bloomberg shipping records.
The drillship is supposed to drill 21 gas wells in the Mariscal Sucre area near Trinidad over 1460 days under a contract worth $785 million, PDVSA said on 26 October last year.