#Oil - Fresh from securing the contract to appraise the Spanish Point prospect in the Porcupine Basin off Ireland's south-west coast, Dolphin Drilling has announced a new $255 million deal for the North Sea.

Scandinavian Oil-Gas reports that the Aberdeen-based company's contract with Chevron North Sea Ltd will see its Blackford Dolphin rig relocate to the UK's sector of the North Sea for at least 18 months from the second quarter of 2015.

That will be the next job for the semisub rig after its deployment to the Porcupine Basin on behalf of Capricorn Ireland this spring, upon the completion of prep works in a Belfast dry dock.