Pacific Drilling Gets Firm Contract Extension for Pacific Bora Drillship

Pacific Drilling S.A. announced that Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited, an affiliate of Chevron, has signed a firm contract extension for the Pacific Bora.

The contract extension increases the drillship’s backlog by approximately $439 million, bringing the company’s total contract backlog as of Aug. 22, 2014, to $3.0 billion.

Pacific Bora is an upgraded Samsung 10,000 design dynamically-positioned drillship capable of operating in moderate to harsh environments and water depths up to 10,000 feet and drilling wells 37,500 feet deep.

Press Release, August 26, 2014