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ACTING believes in the promotion of transpar- represent a major accident hazard for the energy Drilling.
ent business practices and the adoption of sound industry, and whilst surveillance systems using The Maersk Venturer is a high-specification
environmental, social and corporate governance radar, AIS and cameras provide a real time pic- 7th generation drillship delivered in 2014. It is
standards to promote investments across the ture of maritime activity, these are not always currently warm-stacked in Las Palmas, Spain,
African gas value chain. With its partners, it will being operated and monitored to their full after finishing a campaign in Ghana for Tullow
be supporting a broad range of gas industries, capabilities therefore increasing risk to assets. In in 2020.
including LNG, LPG, CNG, piped natural gas, summary, ASCO’s dedicated monitoring service Maersk Drilling, February 04 2021
gas-to-power and hydrogen. ensures that ship platform collisions and threats
African Energy Chamber, February 03 2021 to subsea infrastructure do not go undetected.”
ASCO, February 09 2021 POLICY
Maersk Drilling selected DPR comments says
SERVICES
ASCO starts the year with for long-term drilling most thefts of crude oil

West Africa contract wins campaign by Tullow Oil occur at inland terminals

Global integrated materials and logistics man- Maersk Drilling has received a conditional let- The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR)
agement company, ASCO, has started 2021 with ter of award (CLOA) from Tullow Ghana for disclosed that majority of the crude oil theft
the announcement of two vessel monitoring the provision of the ultra-deepwater drillship recorded in the country’s petroleum industry
contracts in West Africa, worth in the region of Maersk Venturer and additional services for a occur in the inland terminals, noting that it is
$3.5mn. development drilling campaign at the TEN and practically impossible to steal crude oil from the
Contracts include provision of ASCO’s fully Jubilee fields offshore Ghana. offshore terminals.
managed vessel monitoring service for collision The duration of the final contract is around In a statement issued by its Head of Public
risk management, along with an entire field four years with expected commencement in Affairs Paul Osu in Abuja, the Director of the
monitoring solution inclusive of design, pro- Q2-2021. The estimated value of the final con- DPR Sarki Auwalu explained, however, that
curement, installation, maintenance and mon- tract is approximately $370mn, excluding the Nigeria has over 30 terminals, with only five of
itoring. The vessel monitoring service is just one value of the additional services provided and them being land terminals.
of ASCO’s dedicated global marine services, performance bonuses. The operation will be Auwalu, who was making a presentation
offering clients a 24/7/365 global marine control supported by local partner Rigworld. before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc
service coordinated from a dedicated marine The final contract has a progressive day rate Committee on Oil Theft in Abuja, also stated that
operation centre in Aberdeen. structure for the full duration of the contract. Nigeria’s crude oil production and lifting were
Fraser Coleman, ASCO Marine Operations However, after the initial period of 18 months, properly accounted for, while he provided clari-
Manager, said: “These contract awards are con- the contract has a provision to shift to a mar- fications on the process it uses for accounting for
firmation of the excellent service provision that ket-linked day rate structure. crude oil production in the country.
ASCO already delivers and demonstrates our The final contract is conditional upon certain He said: “Most of the thefts, they are coming
capabilities of multi-regional for vessel moni- regulatory conditions being met. Maersk Drill- from land terminals because the land producers
toring and collision risk management. Through ing will publish an announcement upon conclu- have to use pipelines to transport the crude into
advanced technology and our team of experi- sion of a final contract. the terminals for export. In the process, you have
enced mariners, we are able to provide a relia- “We’re delighted to get this opportunity to a lot of third-party interference, which results in
ble and immediate service to clients anywhere secure a long-term contract for [the] Maersk volumes that are being taken and are stolen. So,
in the world from our operations control room Venturer, as Tullow once again shows confidence [for] most of the discrepancies in production
in Aberdeen, ensuring the best use of valuable in Maersk Drilling’s ability to deliver stable and and export, you can easily calculate the theft vol-
marine resources.” highly efficient operations to their major devel- ume. And the theft volume, if not all, come from
Craig Revie, ASCO Group Energy Transition opment projects in Ghana. This also means that the land terminals. But [with] the offshore termi-
Manager, who has more than 20 years of experi- we will be able to continue our work with the nals, it is actually practically impossible to steal
ence working in the field of offshore maritime Ghanaian community and local suppliers who crude from offshore terminals, since it is from
surveillance, commented: “Interactions between have previously contributed to our West African the bottom of the sea.”
vessels and offshore structures continues to operations,” says Jørn Madsen, CEO of Maersk DPR, February 04 2021

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