This morning an incident occurred between one of Go Offshore’s vessels, the DP1 Safety Standby Service Vessel ’FOS Polaris’ and another vessel approximately 1km off the coast of Exmouth, Australia. No one was injured in the incident. GO MARINE GROUP said in a statement it was working with the Department of Transport and other relevant agencies to [...]
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), the government’s body responsible for safety, emergency preparedness and the working environment in the petroleum activities in Norway, has issued an order to Saipem SpA Norwegian Branch (Saipem) following investigation of the ballast incident on the Scarabeo 8 mobile drilling facility on 4 September 2012. On 4 September 2012, the [...]
The Unified Command, consisting of the U.S. Coast Guard, Shell, and other partners, has announced that the Kulluk conical drilling unit remains stable. After a thorough underwater assessment of the unit’s hull, the Unified Command has also informed that no ruptures in the hull were found. Assessment of the Kulluk drilling vessel in Kiliuda Bay [...]
A U.S. Coast Guard flyover of the Shell-operated Conical Drill Unit Kulluk which grounded on the southeast shoreline of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska on December 31, 2012, indicated the vessel remains grounded but stable. The flight crew’s aerial inspection found no signs of a fuel spill from the vessel. The Kulluk has approximately 139,000 gallons of [...]
A worker died last Friday in Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard while fixing the Noble Regina Allen rig which tilted in the shipyard last month. The crew member from Belfor Asia Pte Ltd (Belfor) was found unconscious by his teammates on the floor in the utilities room of the rig. He was immediately taken to the National [...]
VOS Sailor standby vessel which was on Saturday severely damaged at Balmoral field, offshore Aberdeen, UK, has been towed ashore. The owner of the vessel, Vroon Offshore Services, informed via its website that the vessel had reached the port of Fraserburgh on Monday night at approximately 20.40 hrs local time, after being towed back by [...]
Vroon Offshore Services has announced that its VOS Sailor ERRV has suffered severe damage following very rough weather conditions in the Balmoral Field off Aberdeen, UK, Saturday morning. As previously reported, one of the crew members on board the vessel has suffered fatal injuries as a result of the incident. The company has said that last night [...]
China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co. Ltd. has been notified by Friede & Goldman Marketing BV (“F&G”) to temporarily suspend work on its under-construction rigs’ jacking systems, pending testing. F&G is the engineering firm that has designed the jack-up and supplied the entire jacking system through their own sub-suppliers. Rig Tilting in Jurong Shipyard The [...]
The majority of the 89 workers who were sent to the hospital for treatment after Monday’s Jurong Shipyard rig tilting accident have been discharged. Six workers remain warded with minor injuries, and they are expected to be discharged soon, the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore, has announced. Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin went down to [...]
This is one of the worst industrial accidents we have seen in recent times, MOM Secretary says.
