New York and Copenhagen-listed offshore driller Noble has won a $500m contract from Brazil’s Petrobras for the ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Faye Kozack.
.The 2013-built rig, formerly Pacific Khamsin, has been fixed for two-and-a-half years for drilling operations at the BM-S-11 and Tupi fields offshore Brazil starting in the fourth quarter of 2023.
The unit has also been booked by Louisiana-based LLOG for work in the US Gulf of Mexico at $420,000 per day until August.
The deal will see Noble drillship reenter Brazilian waters and mark the company’s first collaboration with Petrobras in many years, said Robert Eifler, Noble’s president and CEO.
A separate announcement also revealed a 60-day one-well contract with Shell for the drillship Noble Voyager offshore Mauritania. The contract starts in continuation of the rig’s current employment with Shell and comes with extension options attached for up to two years.
FYI, LLOG is operating on the West Neptune. Quarternorth Energy is operating on the Noble Faye Kozack in the green canyon field in the gulf of Mexico. Currently completing Katmai 2.