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Maersk Drilling awarded contract extension to drill world record well in Angola; 2.25-mile water depth

Green Car Congress

The Ondjaba-1 well will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m (2.25 The work on Ondjaba-1 commenced in October 2021, after which the rig is scheduled to move to Namibia to drill the Venus well. One one-well option remains on the contract.

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Shell starts production at Vito in US Gulf of Mexico; new, simplified design

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With an estimated peak production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, Vito is the company’s first deep-water platform in the GoM to employ a simplified, cost-efficient host design. Vito is Shell’s 13 th deep-water host in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell announced a final investment decision (FID) on the Vito project in April 2018.

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Glamping With the Stars

Baua Electric

My roughly 60-mile section was marked by sienna-hued mesas and buttes, and cornflower-blue skies. There is also boating and fishing on Lake Powell, though the water level there has been much impacted by drought. The wide valley between myself and Grand Staircase might have been two miles or 20, the scale was so unfathomable.

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