Thursday, November 29, 2018

Ministers of Energy, Foreign Affairs, US ambassador and ExxonMobil VP visit Stena Icemax - CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

.NICOSIA 29/11/2018 17:56
Gregoris Savva

Ministers of Energy, Foreign Affairs, Georgios Lakkotrypis and Nicos Christodoulides, Kathleen Doherty, the US Ambassador to Cyprus, and ExxonMobil’s Vice President Tristan Aspray visited earlier today the drillship that carries out an exploratory drilling at the Deflini target in block 10 of Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone on behalf of the ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum.

The exploratory deep-water drilling began on November 16 and is expected to be concluded by the end of the year.

Sources told CNA that during their visit to Stena Icemax, the two Ministers accompanied by Doherty, Aspray and other officials toured the drill ship's various installations and talked to the captain and crew as well as to the technical crew associated with the drilling.



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