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Hmm..to my guy that's already confirmed dead...RIP and to my other 3 guys still being searched for I pray you are all found quickly. It could have easily been me but well I really wished this happened without any casualties. The rig move operation was one of the numerous activities we've carried out several times without any hiccups, the movers were professionals and I bet whatever the cause was it was beyond their control. Chai! My guy! Here today, gone tomorrow!

NuCypher:
It's not a seplat oil rig. It's a depthwise oil rig working for seplat. Depthwise is a Nigerian drilling company. These guys like many other Nigerian drilling contractors bring in near dead rigs which are twice as likely to fail or suffer an accident

Guy, say what you know and leave the one beyond your understanding. This rig has been the best performing swamp rig in Nigeria for over 2 years now including their commitment to HSE regulations. The cause for this incident is still being investigated.

africandollar:
Hmm..to my guy that's already confirmed dead...RIP and to my other 3 guys still being searched for I pray you are all found quickly. It could have easily been me but well I really wished this happened without any casualties. The rig move operation was one of the numerous activities we've carried out several times without any hiccups, the movers were professionals and I bet whatever the cause was it was beyond their control. Chai! My guy! Here today, gone tomorrow!

Sad one brother

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Please… If you have lost anyone on that vessel..or knew anyone, or have worked with anyone on that vessel prior 2011, please send me a message.

Thank you.

oweniwe:
An Oil company?

At the the expense of their investments and personnel lives? Do you have any idea of how much that rig costs to say that cutting corners?


That can't be true because it doesn't make any sense

What did I say

https://www.nairaland.com/7806213/capsized-seplat-oil-rig-operating

NewDea4:
What did I say

https://www.nairaland.com/7806213/capsized-seplat-oil-rig-operating

You're right. I will take back my words and edit the post

abba190:
u dont like pains? then u shouldnt have come to this world cuz life is full of pain

You're right.

id4sho:
Interesting. Am a layman, can a rig transport itself or it was towed
Why the huge crew on board?

A rig is typically towed by smaller boats called tugboats. They are designed to tow a rig from one place to another, or to the location where drilling is to take place. While towing a rig, a lot of precautions have to be put in place to avoid incidents like this. I think these people got lackadaisical at some point and overlooked certain safety issues which caused this disaster. It rarely happens that a rig suffers an accident while it is being towed. There are different types of rigs however. Land rigs are usually driven in pieces to the drilling location and then assembled on site. Swamp rigs like this one, and Jackups like the ones packed in Marina, are the ones that are towed. Drilling ships are self-driven, because they are ships which carry the drilling rig itself.

The huge crew is necessary to operate the rig. There are different people doing different jobs. It's like a company with different assignments for different people. There's a painter, there is catering crew to help with food, laundrymen to launder people's clothes, there are mechanics to fix stuff, there are electricians to fix electric stuff, there are also management people like the company rep, toolpusher who mobilizes people for work, the driller who drills the well, and all required assistants who support the drilling operation, including crane operators who operate the rig's giant cranes. There are handymen for quick, rough jobs. There are service contractors who attend to all phases of the well operation. All kinds of job functions exist. In all, you can sometimes have up to 100 people at a time on a rig like this. On some other bigger rigs like a drillship, you can have up to 300 people, because there's a completely separate marine crew that operate the ship itself.