Cooper hires Otway Basin rig

摘要

Cooper Energy has hired the Ocean Monarch semi-submersible rig to undertake a drilling pro- gramme in the Otway Basin offshore Australia. The Ocean Monarch will drill on the Annie and Elanora prospects, with the rig due to spud the Annie-1 and Elanora-1 wells in June 2019.?Work on the two wells will start following the drilling of exploration wells by Cooper and Esso Australia, which is due to start in February 2019.