Maersk extends contract for drilling rig in Australia
Japan’s Inpex has exercised an option to extend the provisioning of Maersk Drilling's ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rig Maersk Deliverer for drilling services at the Ichthys gas field offshore Western Australia, Maersk said on April 19.
The contract extension has a duration of one year and is expected to start in July 2023, in direct continuation of the rig’s current contract. One one-year option remains on the contract.
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Maersk Deliverer is a DSS-21 column stabilised dynamically positioned semi-submersible drilling rig, able to operate in water depths up to 10,000ft.
Located about 220 km offshore Western Australia, the Ichthys field covers an area of around 800 km2 in water averaging depths of around 250 m. The field is estimated to contain more than 12 trillion ft2 gas and 500mn barrels of condensate. The gas from the field is processed at the Inpex LNG export facility.