Maersk Drilling has been awarded contracts with Shell for the supply of its Maersk Voyager vessel for drilling companies offshore a number of international locations.

Anticipated to get underway this month, with a complete agency period of 1 12 months, the overall worth of the deal is round £82 million.

That features a mobilisation payment, however excludes built-in companies anticipated to be offered and potential efficiency bonuses.

The contracts embrace a further one-year choice.

Maersk Drilling and Shell have additionally agreed to implement the RigFlow answer delivered by Maersk Drilling subsidiary Horizon56.

RigFlow standardises and digitalises the core workflows concerned in nicely building, together with real-time alternate of data between onshore planning models, the offshore drilling groups, and the service firms supporting the operations.

Morten Kelstrup, chief working officer of Maersk Drilling, stated: “We’re excited to announce that we are going to be persevering with the wonderful collaboration that has now led to seven commitments for our rigs from Shell-affiliated operators in lower than two years.

“This settlement will enable Maersk Voyager to showcase our capability to maneuver swiftly and effectively between jurisdictions and on this approach help Shell with the effectivity gained from with the ability to plan in the long term throughout a number of completely different operations.

“The extremely succesful Voyager crew lately drilled at a brand new world file water depth offshore Angola, they usually’re able to execute this multi-country marketing campaign on the identical excessive degree of operational excellence.”