Neptune kicks off North Sea drilling campaign

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners BP and JAPEX have started drilling on the Seagull project in the UK Central North Sea.

 

The Gorilla VI (JU-248) jack-up rig, operated by Valaris, will drill four wells for the development over the course of the drilling campaign, which is expected to last 18 months, Neptune announced on the 28th January.

 

Neptune awarded a contract to Valaris to provide a heavy-duty jack-up drilling rig for the Seagull development project back in September 2019.

 

At the time, the drilling campaign was expected to start in 3Q 2020.

 

Neptune Energy’s UK Managing Director, Alexandra Thomas, said: “In late 2020, we successfully completed the first subsea construction phase for the Seagull project, which underpins Neptune’s further growth on the UKCS”.

 

Source: Offshore Energy Today