Scorpion Offshore: In dispute over pay with Gazprom.
Scorpion in Gazprom pay row
Bermuda-based driller Scorpion Offshore is in a dispute with Russian gas monopoly Gazprom over payment for use of the company’s Offshore Vigilant jack-up rig in Venezuela.
Gazprom sought to classify 550 hours of work under the “lost in hole and repair” rate due to a fishing job done in May.
The change would cost Scorpion $3.8 million, according to a Scorpion release.
The comany said it was disputing the move but did not book the revenue during the past quarter.
Scorpion has brought in an independent third party to mediate the dispute.
The Vigilante is a Super LeTourneau 116 jack-up that can drill in water depths up to 350 feet.
It is working under a two-well contract with an option for two more wells signed in November last year at a dayrate in the “high” 200,000-dollar range, the company said in its fleet-status report.