By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 16 -- Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska Inc., Irving, Tex.; Doyon Drilling Inc., Anchorage; and Akita Drilling Ltd., Calgary, have signed a 4-year contract to build a rig for work on the North Slope of Alaska.
The rig will be built in Canada in mid-2005 and used for exploratory drilling starting in 2006 by the new joint venture Doyon Akita JV.