Indian multinational oil and gas company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) awards driller contracts for pair of units off west coast.
Dubai-headquartered offshore driller Shelf Drilling has been awarded contracts for two of its jack-up rigs with ONGC for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India.
The offshore drilling contractor said that its C.E. Thornton and F.G. McClintock jack-up rigs had been awarded three-year contracts each.
Operations in the Mumbai High offshore India are expected to start in 4Q 2019.
ONGC is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) of the Government of India, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Shelf Drilling is a international shallow water offshore drilling contractor with rig operations across Middle East, Southeast Asia, India, West Africa and the Mediterranean.