A Maersk drillship has damaged the world file for the deepest water depth for an offshore oil rig after spudding a nicely situated greater than two miles beneath the floor of the ocean.

The nicely, generally known as the Raya-1 prospect, is being drilled offshore Uruguay in a water depth of three,400 meters (11,156 ft).

The nicely is being drilled by the Maersk Venturer drillship for a consortium involving Total SA and ExxonMobil.

The nation’s Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining introduced that drilling started March 30 in Block 14 situated ultra-deep waters roughly 250 km (155 miles) from the Uruguayan coast. Drilling operations are anticipated to take roughly 100 days.

Raya-1 is the primary exploration nicely offshore Uruguay since 1976.

Maersk Venturer was delivered in 2014 to Maersk Drilling, a subsidiary of Copenhagen-headquartered A.P. Moller – Maersk Group. The drillship can drill in water depths of as much as 3,600 meters (12,000 ft).

The earlier file for world’s deepest nicely by water depth was held by Transocean’s ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1. The nicely was drilled in 2013 off the east coast of India in water depths of three,174 m (10,411 ft).