{"id":13476,"date":"2023-03-22T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=13476"},"modified":"2023-03-22T06:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T06:55:24","slug":"nigeria-blackford-dolphin-commenced-drilling-contract-with-ghl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/nigeria-blackford-dolphin-commenced-drilling-contract-with-ghl\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA: Blackford Dolphin commenced drilling contract with GHL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dolphin Drilling AS announces that the Blackford Dolphin has commenced its 12-month drilling contract with General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL) in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the completion of its recertification for a new five-year period in Las Palmas, Spain, the Blackford Dolphin was towed to Port Harcourt in Nigeria in February 2023. The rig has now commenced its 12-month drilling contract with GHL in Nigeria, in line with previously stated expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolphin Drilling AS announces that the Blackford Dolphin has commenced its 12-month drilling contract with General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL) in Nigeria. After the completion of its recertification for a new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/nigeria-blackford-dolphin-commenced-drilling-contract-with-ghl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13477,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,11,7444],"tags":[10967,10968,11104,1749,5905],"class_list":["post-13476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-top-news","category-west-africa","tag-blackford-dolphin","tag-dolphin-drilling","tag-general-hydrocarbons-limited","tag-nigeria","tag-port-harcourt","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Blackford-Dolphin-1.jpg?fit=768%2C581&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3vm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13434,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/nigeria-peak-petroleum-new-contract-signed-for-blackford-dolphin\/","url_meta":{"origin":13476,"position":0},"title":"NIGERIA: Peak Petroleum New Contract signed for Blackford Dolphin","author":"","date":"March 10, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Dolphin Drilling has announced that it has signed a new contract for\u00a0Blackford Dolphin\u00a0with\u00a0Peak Petroleum Industries Nigeria Limited\u00a0(Peak Petroleum) in\u00a0Nigeria. 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