Pacific Drilling Secures Work For Its Drillships

Written by Paulo Nogueira

Published on 05/03/2019 at 11:22

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The Offshore Drilling Company Pacific Drilling Signed Drilling Contracts and Extensions with Total, Chevron, and Eni.

According to the drilling fleet operator, Chevron decided to extend the contract for the drillship Pacific Sharav when the current five-year contract expires in August 2019. The extension is for three additional optional wells in the Gulf of Mexico in the US, the drillship has been operating under these terms since 2014, at a high daily rate of US$ 551,000.

Pacific Drilling did not disclose the new exchange rate in the two-month contract signed, but the Norwegian platform broker Bassoe Offshore estimates that the daily rate is around US$ 175,000.

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