{"id":11048,"date":"2021-10-27T06:29:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2021-10-27T06:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:29:27","slug":"angola-exxonmobil-awards-valaris-drillship-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/angola-exxonmobil-awards-valaris-drillship-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"ANGOLA: ExxonMobil Awards Valaris Drillship Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valaris Limited has announced that it has been awarded a two-year contract with Esso Exploration Angola, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, offshore Angola for drillship VALARIS DS-9.<\/p>\n<p>The rig is currently preservation stacked in the Canary Islands, where it will be reactivated and then mobilized to Angola ahead of the anticipated contract commencement in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Esso Exploration Angola is the operator in block 15 Angola<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valaris Limited has announced that it has been awarded a two-year contract with Esso Exploration Angola, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, offshore Angola for drillship VALARIS DS-9. The rig is currently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/angola-exxonmobil-awards-valaris-drillship-contract\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11049,"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":[160,649,9712,860,9713,9714],"class_list":["post-11048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-southern-africa","category-top-news","tag-angola","tag-drillship","tag-esso-exploration-angola","tag-exxonmobil","tag-valaris","tag-valaris-ds-9","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/VALARIS-DS-9.png?fit=578%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2Sc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12799,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/angola-exxonmobil-make-new-discovery-in-block-15\/","url_meta":{"origin":11048,"position":0},"title":"ANGOLA: ExxonMobil Make New Discovery in Block 15","author":"","date":"November 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The well encountered 30 meters (98 feet) of high-quality, hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone. 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