ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Turkey B.V., an ExxonMobil affiliate, will use the Deepwater Champion, a specially designed, newly built drillship from a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. to explore the deepwater Black Sea offshore Turkey.
ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Turkey B.V., an ExxonMobil
affiliate, will use the Deepwater Champion, a specially designed, newly built
drillship from a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. to explore the deepwater
Black
Sea
offshore
Turkey
.
Elwyn Griffiths, vice president, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, announced
plans for the Deepwater Champion during a speech today at the annual 9th
Turkish Oil and Gas Showcase and Conference in
Ankara
.
"We look forward to utilizing a world-class drillship with superior
ultra-deepwater technology in the Turkish Black Sea,"
Griffiths
said.
Drew Goodbread, ExxonMobil
Turkey
general manager in
Ankara
, said
the Deepwater Champion is currently under construction at the Hyundai Heavy
Industries shipyard in
Ulsan
,
South
Korea
. It is expected to drill its
first well in the Turkish Black Sea in the first half of 2011.
Goodbread said the Deepwater Champion is a sixth-generation drillship capable
of drilling to 12,190 meters (40,000 feet) in up to 3,660 meters (12,000 feet)
of water.
The vessel's drilling derrick contains two drilling stations capable of a
variety of simultaneous operations to improve efficiency.
The derrick has two removable sections for more efficient transit under the
bridges spanning the
Bosphorus
Strait
at
Istanbul
. The
double-hulled vessel is self-propelled and capable of holding its position in
open water in nine meter (30 feet) waves and 60 knot (70 miles per hour) winds.
ExxonMobil entered into an agreement with the Turkish national oil company TPAO
in November 2008 to jointly explore deepwater prospects in the
Samsun
block
of AR/TPO/3922 exploration license and the eastern portion of AR/TPO/3921
exploration license in the
Black Sea
. In
January 2010, ExxonMobil signed an agreement with Petrobras and TPAO to acquire
a 25 percent interest in the Sinop, Ayancik and Car amba sub-blocks of the
AR/TPO/3922 exploration license
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