Houston-based Atwood issued a positionstatement on its website concerning its contract with Kosmos for the newbuilddrillship Atwood Achiever, which is set to drill the Gaarga-1 well on the CapBoujdour block in the Aaiun basin in the fourth quarter.
Atwood released the statement after receivinga letter from the SahrawiArab Democratic Republic (SADR)’s Petroleum & Mines Authority asking it torethink its three-year deal for the unit, currently under construction in SouthKorea.
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