Statoil Gets Approval to Use Borgland Dolphin (Norway)

Statoil has received consent to use the mobile Borgland Dolphin facility on Oseberg Sør. The consent relates to drilling and completion of a production well in production licence 104.

Water depth at the site is 102 metres.  The planned drilling start-up date is 27 October 2012 and the duration will be approx. 125 days.

Borgland Dolphin is a semi-submersible drilling facility, type Aker H-3.

It was built at Harland & Wolff in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1977 and underwent extensive upgrades in 1999.

The facility is owned by Borgland Dolphin Pte Ltd and operated by Dolphin Drilling A/S.

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Press Release, October 3, 2012