{"id":11010,"date":"2021-10-18T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:12:09","slug":"angola-maersk-drilling-awarded-contract-extension-to-drill-world-record-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/angola-maersk-drilling-awarded-contract-extension-to-drill-world-record-well\/","title":{"rendered":"ANGOLA: Maersk Drilling Awarded Contract Extension to Drill World Record Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TotalEnergies E&amp;P Angola has exercised an option for the 7<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>generation drillship Maersk Voyager to drill the ultra-deepwater Ondjaba-1 exploration well in Angola\u2019s Block 48. The contract extension has an estimated duration of 54 days, which means that Maersk Voyager is now contracted until February 2022. The work on Ondjaba-1 commenced in October 2021, after which the rig is scheduled to move to Namibia to drill the Venus well. One one-well option remains on the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Ondjaba-1 well will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m. The current world record is 3,400 m, set by Maersk Voyager\u2019s sister drillship Maersk Venturer when it drilled the Raya-1 well for TotalEnergies offshore Uruguay in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be able to confirm that we indeed will be drilling for a new world record. Ondjaba-1 was part of Maersk Voyager\u2019s original contract in Angola, but the rig\u2019s drilling programme has undergone several changes due to the unprecedented circumstances the world has faced since early 2020. With this contract option called, we\u2019re now looking forward to proving that Maersk Drilling and the highly capable Voyager crew can once again break existing boundaries in close collaboration with TotalEnergies,\u201d says COO Morten Kelstrup of Maersk Drilling.<\/p>\n<p>Maersk Voyager\u00a0is a high-spec ultra-deepwater drillship which was delivered in 2014. It is currently operating offshore Angola for TotalEnergies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TotalEnergies E&amp;P Angola has exercised an option for the 7th\u00a0generation drillship Maersk Voyager to drill the ultra-deepwater Ondjaba-1 exploration well in Angola\u2019s Block 48. The contract extension has an estimated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/angola-maersk-drilling-awarded-contract-extension-to-drill-world-record-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11011,"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":[7442,7445,11],"tags":[160,8279,649,1479,9687,5021,9686,9339],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-southern-africa","category-top-news","tag-angola","tag-block-48","tag-drillship","tag-maersk-voyager","tag-ondjaba-1-exploration-well","tag-rig","tag-rotal","tag-totalenergies","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Maersk-Voyager.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2RA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11253,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-totalenergies-spuds-venus-1x-exploration-well-in-offshore-block-2913b\/","url_meta":{"origin":11010,"position":0},"title":"NAMIBIA: TotalEnergies Spuds Venus-1X exploration well in offshore Block 2913B","author":"","date":"December 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Block 2913B JV partner Impact Oil & Gas Limited has announced the spud of the Venus-1X offshore exploration well in Namibia Block 2913B (PEL 56). 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The Eni led joint venture which includes TotalEnergies and Qatar Energy spud the well on 28th December 2021 at a depth of 2560m at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Block-L11A-Mlima.jpg?fit=596%2C468&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Block-L11A-Mlima.jpg?fit=596%2C468&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Block-L11A-Mlima.jpg?fit=596%2C468&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9826,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/ghana-tullow-oil-awards-maersk-drilling-campaign-at-the-ten-and-jubilee-fields\/","url_meta":{"origin":11010,"position":4},"title":"GHANA: Tullow Oil Awards Maersk Drilling Campaign at the TEN and Jubilee fields","author":"","date":"February 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Maersk Drilling has received a conditional letter of award from Tullow Ghana Ltd.\u00a0 for the provision of the ultra-deepwater drillship Maersk Venturer and additional services for a development drilling campaign at the TEN and Jubilee fields offshore Ghana. 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