HRT Participações em Petróleo S.A. announced that it has received the semi-submersible drilling-rig Transocean-Marianas from Transocean offshore Ghana, at zero hour of January 15, 2013. The rig will be in transit to Namibian waters for the next three weeks and, then, she will undergo mandatory maintenance for the following 21 days, before starting HRT's drilling campaign in Walvis and Orange sedimentary basins. The Marianas is expected to be on location to start drilling the first well in Namibia, in the Wingat Prospect, in Walvis basin at HRT's Petroleum Exploration License-23 (Pel-23) by the end of first quarter of 2013.