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Thursday, March 5, 2015
ENI Ghana Exploration and Production has contracted Maersk Drilling for the use of the new build drillship Maersk Voyager. The firm contract period is 3.5 years with an option to extend by one year. The total estimated revenue from the firm contract is $545 million including mobilization and escalations.
Maersk Voyager will work on Ghana’sOffshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) block. The contract is expected to commence in July.
“We are very pleased to be chosen by ENI and its partners Vitol and GNPC for this project offshore Ghana and we look forward to working together with the OCTP JV over the next 3.5 years. West Africa has been a strategic focus area for Maersk Drilling, since we embarked on our deepwater expansion, and with this contract we expand our presence in the promising West African deepwater market,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling.
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