Confirmation of offshore drilling by drillship by Seadrill came this week, and the work will be carried out jointly with Petrobras

Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill confirmed that one of its drillships started its mission in an offshore field in Brazil with the country's oil and gas giant, Petrobras.

In November 2021, drilling Seadrill secured two contracts with Petrobras for its West Carina and West Tellus rigs to work on the Búzios field offshore Brazil.

At the time, offshore drilling Seadrill explained that both contracts were signed with a fixed term of three years and that the platforms should start working for Petrobras in September 2022.

As a reminder, Seadrill's West Tellus offshore drilling rig previously worked for Petrobras under a contract awarded in November 2019, which was due to end in December 2021.

However, due to Petrobras' request for early termination of the offshore drilling business, as reported in May 2021, the platform was supposed to be working for Petrobras until September 2021 with a daily rate of BRL 211.311.

In an update last week, Seadrill confirmed that the West Tellus offshore drilling drillship has started work with Petrobras in Brazil.

Meet the Seadrill ship

Seadrill's West Tellus, built in 2013, is a sixth-generation DP3 offshore drillship built by the Samsung shipyard in South Korea. It can accommodate 200 people.

This Seadrill offshore drillship started its contract with Petrobras just a week after the West Jupiter drillship did the same.

More about ships: Shell plans to have every last drop of the company's oil out of Brazil. The multinational has 14 active platform ships, another 3 already contracted and another 3 planned to be incorporated in the future

Present on Brazilian soil for 110 years, Shell has declared that it intends to explore “up to the last drop of oil” on Brazilian soil on its platforms, in addition to planning to complete the energy transition to renewable sources, according to the Broadcast website.

To conclude this company's planning, the president of Shell in Brazil, Cristiano Pinto da Costa, intends to accelerate licenses for investments in oil and gas exploration platforms, in addition to also accelerating the process of the regulatory framework for offshore wind energy.

According to the president of Shell, Brazil is a priority country for the oil company. In charge of Shell since August 2022, Pinto da Costa has an 18-year career at the company, even working at its headquarters in London, before returning to Brazil in 2018.

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