Total to continue drilling off Bulgaria

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Total has hired Noble Corp.'s Noble Globetrotter II to drill one well offshore Bulgaria, beginning in September.

Noble Globetrotter II. Image from Noble.

The contract is estimated to be a 100-day primary term that will begin in late-September and end in late-December at a dayrate of US$185,000.

In Bulgaria, Toal has an interest in the Khan Asparuh license in the Black Sea, about 120km  from the coast in -2000m water depth.

The French supermajor made a deepwater oil discovery in October 2016 in the license with the Noble Globetrotter II drillship.

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