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.
[mappress] Press Release, October 3, 2012