{"id":15409,"date":"2025-12-13T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=15409"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:47:21","slug":"namibia-northern-ocean-contract-award-for-deepsea-mira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-northern-ocean-contract-award-for-deepsea-mira\/","title":{"rendered":"NAMIBIA: Northern Ocean Contract Award for Deepsea Mira"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Northern Ocean announces the signing of a contract with a subsidiary of Shell for the Deepsea Mira, commencing operations in Namibia in April 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contract covers one firm well and includes one optional well, with an estimated duration of 45 days for the firm well and a projected firm backlog of approximately USD 16 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This contract will increase NOL\u2019s firm backlog to approximately USD 387 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ocean announces the signing of a contract with a subsidiary of Shell for the Deepsea Mira, commencing operations in Namibia in April 2026. The contract covers one firm well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-northern-ocean-contract-award-for-deepsea-mira\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14113,"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":[7442,7445,11],"tags":[11046,1675,10883,2297],"class_list":["post-15409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-southern-africa","category-top-news","tag-deepsea-mira","tag-namibia","tag-northern-ocean","tag-shell","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Deepsea-Mira.jpg?fit=540%2C582&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-40x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14112,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/namibia-totalenergies-extends-deepsea-mira-contract\/","url_meta":{"origin":15409,"position":0},"title":"NAMIBIA: TotalEnergies Extends Deepsea Mira contract","author":"","date":"December 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Northern Ocean Ltd has announce that a subsidiary of TotalEnergies SE exercised the first option under the\u00a0Deepsea Mira\u00a0contract for work in West Africa. 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