The rig is currently being used by Repsol to drill the Jaguey prospect in Cuba’s little-explored North Cuba basin.

The unit will next go to Petronas of Malaysia. Petrovietnam is looking to secure a slot to spud its well after 2012. 

“We have talked about([getting access),” Pham Nhu Khanh, a vice president in the company’s E&P arm, said on the sidelines of OTC 2012. 

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