The Anglo-Dutch supermajor has sent the drillship Noble Discoverer and the Kulluk drilling barge to Asia for repairs after the former suffered engine trouble and the other was damaged in a grounding off Alaska last winter drilling efforts in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
“We will not take a decision on when and how we drill in 2014 until we’ve been through some of the work with the repair yards,” chief financial officer Simon Henry told analysts on a conference call.
“It’s
