Maersk Oil Qatar and Gulf Drilling International (GDI) yesterday signed a QR770mn, four-year agreement under which the former will contract Al Jassra, GDI’s new jack-up drilling rig, for drilling and well work-over activity in the Al Shaheen field, Qatar’s largest offshore oil field. Al Jassra will be one of the drilling rigs used to deliver Maersk’s latest field development plan, FDP 2012, which was agreed in November 2012 and calls for the drilling of 51 new wells - a $1.5bn commitment - in Al Shaheen oil field. Maersk’s Qatar managing director Lewis Affleck and GDI chief executive officer Ibrahim J al-Othman are seen with other senior officials and guests on the occasion.
