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The contract includes a further one-year option common grid resulting in a single, continuous Dolphin Drilling announces
period. volume of full-stack seismic data in the time
The Trident 16 has been working with Petro- domain. new LOA for Blackford
bel in Belayim fields since 2015, and following This extensive seismic coverage allows for
this extension, the expected availability of the rig regional-scale understanding of prospectivity in Dolphin in Nigeria
is February 2024. and around the license round acreage. Enhanced
Shelf Drilling, 10 January 2023 datasets are also available to license as GeoS- Dolphin Drilling has announced a new Letter
treamer PSTM and MegaSurveyPlus PSTM of Award (LOA) for the Blackford Dolphin and
PGS supports Nigeria 2022 which have additional products such as angle provided an update on the rig status.
Blackford Dolphin has signed a Letter of
stacks and gathers.
Mini Bid Round 12 km of Late Cretaceous to Quaternary aged continuation with the previously announced
The Niger Delta Basin is dominated by up to Award for additional work in Nigeria in direct
PGS is pleased to support the recently clastics deposited in an upward coarsening contract with General Hydrocarbon Ltd (GHL).
announced Nigeria 2022 Mini Bid Round with regressive deltaic sequence. The main source The LOA has the potential to extend the backlog
an excellent range of 3D coverage over the seven rocks are Akata Formation marine shales and by a minimum of 120 days and up to 485 days,
blocks on offer. Lower Agbada Formation paralic shales. Proven in addition to the existing GHL backlog. The
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regu- reservoirs in the basin are dominated by uncon- effective day rate associated with the minimum
latory Commission (NUPRC) has scheduled solidated sandstones of the Agbada Formation firm period of the LOA is $325,000, including
a pre-bid conference on January 16, 2023, after deposited as stacked turbidite channel and fan the mobilisation fee.
which interested companies will be invited to complexes. Following a delayed departure from Mexico
submit their pre-qualification applications by 31 Two main plays are proven in the Nigerian and reduced transit speed, Blackford Dolphin
Jan 2023. Transform Margin area; the syn-transform arrived in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, and was
Seven blocks are on offer, focused in the Lower Cretaceous and post-transform Upper safely moored quayside on November 24, 2022.
north-western Nigerian Offshore. Blocks PPL- Cretaceous. Cenomanian-Turonian marine At the shipyard in Las Palmas the rig has under-
300-DO, PPL-301-DO and PPL-302-DO are shales provide an oil-prone source rock in the gone a Special Periodic Survey (SPS) allowing for
located in the Nigerian Transform Margin region, with potential reservoirs deposited as continuous work until 2028.
area. Blocks PPL-303-DO, PPL-304-DO, PPL- shallow and marginal marine sandstones in the Blackford Dolphin will remain at the ship-
305-DO and PPL-306-DO are within the deep- Lower Cretaceous, and deep-marine sandstones yard until early February 2023. The capital cost
water Niger Delta Basin. in the Upper Cretaceous. associated with the SPS is in line with the budget
PGS has assembled a data package to license With the Petroleum Industry Act in place of $15mn.
over the blocks, comprised of about 10 000 potential bidders benefit from a clear legislative After the SPS, the rig will transit to Port Hard-
square km of merged 3D seismic data. This is backdrop from NUPRC as well as from a wealth court in Nigeria and commence its contract with
composed of various input surveys which have of 3D seismic data from PGS. GHL.
been matched, merged and re-binned onto a PGS, 09 January 2023 Dolphin Drilling, 09 January 2023

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