The jack-up rig Noble Regina Allen sits on the heavy-lift vessel GPO Amethyst in Halifax harbour on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. The rig was used to cap wells during the decommissioning of the Sable offshore gas field off the Nova Scotia coast and is headed to another assignment off the coast of West Africa. A small $1.5 million bid for an oil and gas exploration licence off Nova Scotia has been denied by the provincial and federal governments.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan