The Americans with Hunt Oil have started a public acquisition procedure of oil drilling services within the Urziceni East Perimeter, where they are partners with Petrom, with the estimated cost of the contract standing at 17 to 19 million RON, VAT excluded, according to a Hunt Oil announcement posted on the website of public acquisitions, Agerpres informs. ‘The specific services required are: mobilization, drilling, completion (or abandoning) and carrying out all operations and services related to a vertical derrick, and, at the request of HOCOR [Hunt Oil Company of Romania], another optional derrick,’ reads the announcement. The scheduled date for starting the awarding procedures is November 28, 2013. According to the timetable set out in the announcement, drilling at the first derrick is scheduled to begin on May 1, 2014, in Ialomita County.