Offshore staff

LONDON – ExxonMobil has awarded the drillship Noble Sam Croft a new six-month contract offshore Guyana, Noble Corp. revealed in its latest trading statement.

Operations are expected to start in 4Q 2020 after the rig finishes its current program offshore Suriname.  This contract was awarded under the commercial enabling agreement established with ExxonMobil for Guyana earlier this year. 

With this award, all four of Noble’s high-specification HHI drillships will now be contracted to ExxonMobil in Guyana.

As for the state of the offshore drilling market, Robert W. Eifler, president and CEO of Noble, said: “…. the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the OPEC+ supply disruptions has led us to push out further our expectations for a meaningful recovery in demand.

“Despite the very challenging backdrop, Noble has continued to outperform the market in utilization. We are signing new contracts for our jackups in the North Sea and maintain very robust utilization for our floaters in the Gulf of Mexico and Guyana/Suriname basin.” 

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