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Stena IceMax located tonight 35 nautical miles off Cuban Coast in Bahamas territorial waters.

Sunday 27th Dec 9.01 pm
Source; Satellite (EA8RH)

Status: Stopped (Restricted Manoeuvrability)
Speed 0 knots
Weather
Wind 14 Knots
Wind Direction: 38deg. North East
Temp 22C
Satellite MAP location
Lat. 23.27.572
Long.-79.1304

Stena IceMax
supported by offshore supply ships both under BPC contract to Holbeck Offshore. Louisiana, US.
Hos Clearwater
Hos Blackfoot
https://tinyurl.com/ycpb64r3

https://www.bpcplc.com/media/

Check the Media news site

DutchStanton
Good riddance to you...

The Contrarian  Frederick R.M. Smith, QC eccentric & loud

Frederick R.M. Smith, QC Being Removed From Detention Center forcibly Dec 2017
https://tinyurl.com/y5w6qv9b

SUPREME Court Justice Petra Hanna-Weekes has dismissed an application by attorneys Fred Smith Sept 25th 2015
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/sep/26/supreme-court-dismisses-application-stop-hawksbill/

Attorney General Carl Bethel maybe has not read the following issued by BPC
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2020/nov/18/oil-explorer-we-will-pay-double-required-royalties/

LONDON MARKET EARLY CALL: New Virus Variant In England Spooks Markets(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are set to open lower on Monday as a new Covid-19 variant led ...
21 December 2020
(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are set to open lower on Monday as a new Covid-19 variant led to further restrictions in the UK and travel bans from Europe.

IG says futures indicate the FTSE 100 index of large-caps to open 63.28 points lower, or 1.0%, at 6,465.90 on Monday. The FTSE 100 closed down 21.88 points, or 0.3%, at 6,529.18 on Friday.

The lower open in London comes as things have gone from "bad to worse" in terms of virus restrictions in the UK, said CMC Markets's David Madden.
"London and large swathes of south east England have entered Tier 4. The Scottish government is advising people not to enter the country, while Wales has heightened restrictions too. Rising case numbers because of the new Covid-19 strain brought about the new measures," said Madden.
He added: "Even though yesterday was originally cited as the deadline for UK-EU trade talks, it is understood that differences still remain and that discussions will continue today. Given how things have gone so far, it was hardly a surprise. This comes at a time when many countries in mainland Europe are also struggling to keep a lid on their own situation – a number of countries have extended their lockdowns into mid-January. The airline sector is likely to be in focus today for all the wrong reasons."

Sunday 20th Dec 16.12 pm

Stena IceMax - Perseverance 1 location
Source; Satellite (EA8RH)
Status Stopped
Speed 0 knots
Weather
Wind 16 Knots
Wind Direction: 91deg. East
Temp 24C
Lat. 23.27.42.3 
Long.-79.13
Satellite MAP location
https://tinyurl.com/y7bpnu3l

Alongside Stena IceMax - Supply ship Hos Black Foot
https://tinyurl.com/y7jux6su

If you are new to Bahamas Petroleum probably missed a couple of excellent videos below on why drill Perseverance1

Leo Koot BPC Non-Ex Director (ex CEO Columbus)
Leo talks about Perseverance1 chances of success after studying data which included viewing BPC own data room
https://tinyurl.com/y6duwbrp

Also, the following must be in my opinion simply the best available description anywhere on why BPC chose
to drill Perseverance1...the venue, an investor conference London, Sept 2019.
https://tinyurl.com/yb4ydyz8

Stena IceMax location Friday 23.16 pm
https://tinyurl.com/ycjaneph

My own view
On arrival at drilling, location would probably be a day and a half to deploy transponders and position the rig. They can be running conductor with the jetting assembly while they position the rig. As soon as the rig is positioned pretty much ready to spud by jetting in the conductor. If no problems & all going well would be around Monday 21st spud date. Good luck to
all the IceMax crew involved who are working through Christmas & New Year...I fully expect the news will filter through
usual channels sometime in Jan 2021 due to huge interest worldwide...If I was to hazard a guess would be 2 billion +

Heading south to drill location 35 nautical miles off the Cuban coast, in Bahamas territorial waters.

Fri Dec18th 2020 11.15 am
Source; Satellite (EA8RH)

Status Underway Using Engine
Speed/Course 7 knots/190deg
Weather
Wind 18 Knots
Wind Direction: 346deg.NNW
Temp 20C
Lat. 26.15676
Long.-79.4775
Satellite MAP location
https://tinyurl.com/y8e886yb

Joatnon
The offshore ship alongside Stena IceMax name Hos Clearview arrived early in the week having sailed from Fourchon (US}

Joatmon - if you are correct I will send you a tenner - if I am correct you can send me twenty

I agree with the professional view of CoMan on the 8th Dec said
"Think the 22nd to 24th is realistic for spud. It makes no sense to leave Freeport until all the equipment they need for the top 2 sections of the well are on the rig - ie jetting 36" conductor, and then drilling 26" hole and running and cementing 20" casing. That way they can carry on with spud preparations while sailing to the location, they can't offload boats while they are positioning the rig on the well location so best to get kit on in Freeport.
Most likely the 15th will be an inefficient day as all the contractor personnel they need for drilling (Halliburton, Baker etc) will be joining the rig and going through their safety inductions so they'll probably need another 3 days in Freeport to get everything offloaded and all the bulk materials on that they need. They don't gain anything by leaving early anyway as they have to rig up the mud logging unit and MWD/LWD unit, it's probably a day and a half sail to location and a further day and half to deploy transponders and position the rig. They can be running conductor with the jetting assembly while they position the rig so as soon as the rig is positioned they should be pretty much ready to spud by jetting in the conductor. Think that would be around the 22nd or 23rd if everything goes ok"

If you missed it from Sept 2019
Must be the best description anywhere of why choose this location to drill? explained in detail investor conference London
https://tinyurl.com/yb4ydyz8

Mark@1973 re 21.14 post
thanks for sharing...interesting to hear from Bahama residents who are happy Bahamas Petroleum have arrived to drill

Stena Icemax at anchor 62 miles off Freeport beside
an US offshore supply ship.

I feel sure you will find Stena IceMax will anchor off Freeport, if only because the ports cargo pier has a maximum allowable depth of 9.1 meters. The Stena Icemax draft is 12 meters according to the Stena own ship's specifications
Freeport anchorage depth: 76 feet - OVER 23.2m (facts source: Freeport harbour authority)

Also, I agree with the view of the respected poster CoMan's who has years of experience in present-day offshore drillship operations he said...
"They would never go onto a dock in Freeport but it makes sense to anchor up a few miles offshore which allows them to efficiently load the rig by working the supply boats on both sides of the rig. There will be a lot of people joining the rig in freeport and probably a few leaving so they can easily achieve that with a crew change vessel "

Monday 14th Dec 2020. 13.45 pm
Status Underway Using Engine
Speed/Course 7.5 knots/259 deg
Weather
Wind 14 Knots
Wind Direction: 155deg. SSE
Temp 25C
Distance to Freeport Grand Bahamas 119 Nautical Miles
ETA Freeport if ship speed average 7 knots 15th Dec 06.03 am
location
https://tinyurl.com/y5napc85