{"id":10099,"date":"2021-03-25T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T08:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=10099"},"modified":"2021-03-25T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T08:56:42","slug":"egypt-shelf-drilling-secures-contract-extension-on-the-trident-16-jack-up-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-shelf-drilling-secures-contract-extension-on-the-trident-16-jack-up-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"EGYPT: Shelf Drilling Secures Contract Extension on the Trident 16 Jack-up Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shelf Drilling \u00a0has secured a two-year contract extension for the Trident 16 jack-up rig in direct continuation of its current term with Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel), \u00a0a subsidiary company of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), for operations in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt.<\/p>\n

The Trident 16 has been working with Petrobel in Belayim fields since 2015, and following this extension, the expected availability of the rig is February 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shelf Drilling \u00a0has secured a two-year contract extension for the Trident 16 jack-up rig in direct continuation of its current term with Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel), \u00a0a subsidiary company of … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7446,11],"tags":[9164,9161,8259,709,7711,8432,9162,9163],"class_list":["post-10099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","category-top-news","tag-belayim-fields","tag-belayim-petroleum-company","tag-egpc","tag-egypt","tag-egyptian-general-petroleum-corporation","tag-petrobel","tag-shelf-drilling","tag-trident-16-jack-up-rig","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Egypt-Belayim.png?fit=850%2C522&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2CT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13121,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-shelf-drilling-secures-contract-extension-on-the-trident-16\/","url_meta":{"origin":10099,"position":0},"title":"EGYPT: Shelf Drilling Secures Contract Extension on the Trident 16","author":"","date":"January 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Shelf Drilling has announced that it has secured a one-year contract extension for the Trident 16 jack-up rig in direct continuation of its current term with Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel) for operations in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt. 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