Signatures for the hydrocarbon drilling contract in the Ionian Sea, watch live

The drilling declaration volition beryllium signed by the ExxonMobil – Energean – HELLENiQ Energy consortium and Stena Drilling, successful the beingness of Environment and Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou, followed by the presumption of the Drilling Programme by the consortium.

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The consortium is expected to instrumentality the exploratory drilling successful February 2027, from the Stena DrillMAX.

The Stena DrillMAX is simply a 6th-generation drillship, built successful 2007 by Samsung Heavy Industries and operated by Stena Drilling. It is portion of the DrillMAX series, a radical of high-end vessels designed to propulsion the boundaries of offshore drilling.

One of the cardinal features of the Stena DrillMAX is its quality to run successful shallow waters. It is designed to run successful h2o depths of up to 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) and drill to depths of up to 35,000 feet (over 10 kilometers), allowing entree to deposits erstwhile considered inaccessible.

Its show is based connected modern technological systems:
* Dynamic positioning (DP3): it uses computer-controlled propellers to support its presumption without anchoring.
* Dual enactment system: Allows simultaneous drilling operations, reducing clip and cost, a relation known arsenic dual-activity drilling.
*Bailout preventer (BOP):A information strategy that controls unit and seals the good successful an emergency, preventing uncontrolled lipid oregon state spills. In the discourse of accrued biology sensitivity and adherence to stricter regulations, specified technologies are essential.

The information valve controls the lipid tanker’s lipid unit erstwhile the lipid is not successful use.
These marque the vessel susceptible of operating continuously and safely successful challenging conditions.

Size and capabilities
Length: 228 metres

Meters: length, length, length, width: 228 m.
Width: 42 metres
Transport capacity: astir 97,000 tons
Crew: up to 180 people

It besides has ample stores for substance and equipment, allowing for semipermanent missions without refueling. It includes powerfulness procreation systems, dense cranes, specialized drilling instrumentality and biology extortion barriers.

The Stena DrillMAX is the archetypal drill rig to person DNV “Abate (P)” certification for emanation simplification and vigor efficiency.

The event, which volition instrumentality spot time astatine the Ministry of Environment, volition besides beryllium attended by the Ambassadors of the United States, Ms Kimberly Guilfoyle and Sweden, Hakan Emsgartn.