The Brazilian company is on the hunt for one or more units to help develop the giant Libra field in the Santos basin but invited back only those companies that had taken part in a previous market consultation, in an effort to speed things up.
Upstream understands that bids were presented by Seadrill offering the drillships West Tellus and West Carina and Ensco presenting three drillships — the GS5, currently sub-contracted by Petrobras’s African division and working in the Gulf of Mexico, plus the GS8 and GS10.
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