Shell Ltd. subsidiaries BG Delta Ltd. and BG International Ltd. have let a contract to Stena Drilling Ltd. for use of the mobile offshore drilling unit Stena Forth offshore Egypt.
The drillship will drill three wells in the Mediterranean. The project requires the managed pressure drilling unit installed in the rig, the service provider said in a release.
Drilling operations will start in 2023 upon completion of existing contractual commitments.
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
