RE: SHELL and Namibia12 Feb 2022 08:18
Totalenergies drill ship is still over Venus-1 after 74 days since spud....all bodes well for another significant discovery imho. Gla ;-)
Maersk Voyager setting a new world record on the Ondjaba well
Maersk Voyager successfully drilled the Ondjaba-1 well at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m. The current world record is 3,400 m, set by Maersk Voyager’s sister drillship Maersk Venturer when it drilled the Raya-1 well for TotalEnergies offshore Uruguay in 2016.
Maersk Voyager afterwards relocated to Namibia for Venus-1, another ultra-deepwater
well. Proving that it is feasible to drill at such depths has commercial potential, because of the potential for our customers to increase yield from existing deepwater assets.
A considerable amount of ultra-deepwater oil and gas prospects are split by the 3,600 m water depth frontier due to limitations in vessel and equipment design. But potentially, even bigger discoveries lie just across the 3,600 m demarcation line, and operators are interested in exploring how these resources can be unlocked without massive new nvestments.
To meet this demand, Maersk Drilling has performed a thorough analysis of
how to potentially use 7th generation floaters at even greater depths.
“The greatest risk factor in ultra-deepwater drilling is the risk of going outside equipment limits. You need to control the dynamic loads when deploying the BOP, and to avoid unnecessary BOP stack pulling which will set you back for a prolonged period of time.
We mitigate this by preparing properly, including thorough equipment assessment, riser analysis, and an important focus on working together with the client as One Team,” says Konstantin Puskarskij, Head of Technical in the International Division.
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