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Tullow Oil declares force majeure on West Leo drilling contract
Publication date: 04 October 2016
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Ghana-focused Tullow Oil has declared force majeure on its offshore drilling contract with Seadrill Partners for deepwater semi-submersible drilling vessel West Leo, Seadrill said on Tuesday.
Tullow reportedly claims that the TEN development, where West Leo was most recently deployed, is subject to a drilling moratorium by the Ghanaian government, imposed because of an ongoing border dispute at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).