The rig is due to mobilise in May for the intial drilling effort in the Pechora Sea under a two-year contract, with a one-year extension option, with Romanian contractor GSP Offshore and will also carry out exploration in Russia’s sector of the Barents Sea.
The first job for the 1988-built jack-up will be to drill a third probe at the North Dolginskoye prospect as a follow-up to three earlier wells drilled at the field – two at North Dolginskoye and one at South Dolginskoye.
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