{"id":12942,"date":"2022-12-13T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=12942"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:22:32","slug":"namibia-deepsea-bollsta-commences-contract-with-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-deepsea-bollsta-commences-contract-with-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMIBIA: Deepsea Bollsta Commences Contract with Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ocean has announced that its high specification semisubmersible drilling rig, <em>Deepsea Bollsta<\/em>, has safely completed the transit to Namibia and commenced its contract with Shell Upstream Namibia BV, a subsidiary of Shell Plc.<\/p>\n<p>The contract has a firm duration of twelve months and an option to extend for six months. Odfjell Drilling AS (\u201cOdfjell\u201d) successfully prepared the rig for the contract and provides operations management during the term of this contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commend the crews and the management of Odfjell, as they delivered this project and transit on-time, within budget and most importantly, without incident. We look forward to delivering more significant milestones for Shell as we embark on this drilling campaign, and expect to continue strengthening the relationship with the manager and the client,\u201d says Scott McReaken, CEO of NOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ocean has announced that its high specification semisubmersible drilling rig, Deepsea Bollsta, has safely completed the transit to Namibia and commenced its contract with Shell Upstream Namibia BV, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-deepsea-bollsta-commences-contract-with-shell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12943,"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":[10882,10883,10884,2297],"class_list":["post-12942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-southern-africa","category-top-news","tag-deepsea-bollsta","tag-northern-ocean","tag-odfjell-drilling-as","tag-shell","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Deepsea-Bollsta.jpg?fit=540%2C582&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3mK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13757,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-deepsea-mira-commences-totalenergies-contract\/","url_meta":{"origin":12942,"position":0},"title":"NAMIBIA: Deepsea Mira Commences TotalEnergies Contract","author":"","date":"June 29, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Northern Ocean Ltd has announced its high specification semisubmersible drilling rig,\u00a0Deepsea Mira, has safely completed the transit to Namibia and commenced drilling activities under its contract with a TotalEnergies subsidiary. 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