Elaine Maslin
Aberdeen-based oil land gas explorer Xcite Energy today said the Rowan Norway drilling rig could be deployed to its Bentley field in February.
The firm said the unit was now on hire to it, subject to checks, and that following adding drilling and processing equipment to it while in port at Dundee it would be deployed to the field, about 100 miles east of Shetland, to start drilling.
This was expected to be early February 2012, weather permitting and subject to the firm getting its field development plan approved by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, said Xcite.