{"id":11818,"date":"2022-02-11T05:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2022-02-11T05:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T05:45:03","slug":"zimbabwe-invictus-awards-well-services-contract-to-baker-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/zimbabwe-invictus-awards-well-services-contract-to-baker-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"ZIMBABWE: Invictus Awards Well Services Contract to Baker Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Invictus has announced that Baker Hughes has been awarded the integrated well services contract for drilling of the Muzabarani-1 well in the Cabora Bassa basin following the completion of the tender and evaluation process. A Letter of Intent has been executed and the contract is expected to be finalized and executed in coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is for services including cementing, mudlogging, drilling fluids, tubular running, directional drilling and logging, installation<br \/>\nof wellhead equipment and project management.<\/p>\n<p>As announced on 10 December 2021, Invictus has contracted Exalo Rig 202 to perform the drilling work, with the first well expected to<br \/>\nspud in the first half of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Invictus has appointed ERC Equipoise Pte Ltd (ERCE) to conduct an independent prospective resource update for the Cabora Bassa<br \/>\nProject. The review will incorporate the newly acquired and processed high resolution 2D seismic data from the CB21 Seismic<br \/>\nSurvey completed in November 2021 and the concurrently reprocessed 1990 vintage Mobil 2D seismic survey for the prospects<br \/>\nand leads identified from the seismic interpretation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invictus has announced that Baker Hughes has been awarded the integrated well services contract for drilling of the Muzabarani-1 well in the Cabora Bassa basin following the completion of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/zimbabwe-invictus-awards-well-services-contract-to-baker-hughes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8566,"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":[217,7808,9689,10164,7812,9879,2272],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-southern-africa","category-top-news","tag-baker-hughes","tag-cabora-bassa","tag-erc-equipoise","tag-exalo","tag-invictus-energy","tag-muzabarani-1","tag-seismic","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zimbabwe-Cabora-Bassa.jpg?fit=570%2C797&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-34C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12288,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/zimbabwe-invictus-energy-signs-integrated-well-services-contract-with-baker-hughes\/","url_meta":{"origin":11818,"position":0},"title":"ZIMBABWE: Invictus Energy Signs Integrated Well Services Contract with Baker Hughes","author":"","date":"May 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Invictus is pleased to confirm it has executed a binding well services contract with Baker Hughes\u00a0 for its basin opening drilling campaign in the Muzarabani-Mbire area of Zimbabwe, scheduled to commence end of July 2022. 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