The planned depth is approximately 2,175 meters below mean sea level.
Aker Solutions has signed a frame agreement with Tullow Ghana Limited to provide well intervention services for deepwater fields offshore Ghana, West Africa.
Five vessels remain positioned at the site ready to disperse any oil found in the sea.
Republican congressman Scott Rigell of Virginia Beach intends to introduce legislation that would force the Department of the Interior to sell leases to companies interested in drilling off the coast of Virginia, at least 50 miles out. Both of Virginia’s senators, Democrats Jim Webb and Mark Warner, had introduced a similar bill last year, but it remains mired in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
WWCS will use its proprietary custom-engineered equipment for the project.
