Posted on 05/06/2015 4:41:50 AM PDT by thackney
An accident on an oil well-maintenance platform killed two workers and injured 10 off Mexico’s coast on Tuesday, company officials reported, blaming the incident on the collapse of one of the rig’s legs.
State oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said the Troll Solution rig was maneuvering to perform offshore maintenance at the time of the accident in the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico.
Pemex blamed a structural failure in the leg. The rig was “listing” but had not sunk, the company said via Twitter.
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At least two workers died today as an oil maintenance platform tilted over the sea off Mexico’s east coast, forcing the evacuation of 101 employees, the Pemex energy firm said.
The jackup rig, owned by a Pemex contractor named Typhoon Offshore, began to list in the Sound of Campeche area of the Gulf of Mexico after a “failure” in one of its movable legs, the company said in a statement.
Three Pemex employees and 98 Typhoon employees were removed from the platform, which was still tilting in the early afternoon.
The platform was positioning itself to conduct maintenance work for the wells of another rig when it began to lean. A jackup rig has movable legs that can raise its hull over the sea.
“Regrettably, two external company workers were reported dead, and another was injured,” Pemex said.
In another incident in the same area last month, a Pemex rig caught fire on the Sound of Campeche, killing four workers and leaving three missing.
A Pemex spokesman was unable to give details about Typhoon.
Typhoon appears to have a website that lists a Mexico City address and telephone number, but a woman answering the phone said nobody was available for comment.
The website says Troll Solution flies the flag of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and was built in 2010. It has three movable legs, a crane and a helipad.
The company was incorporated in 2013 to “satisfy demand in the Gulf of Mexico for heavy well intervention and workovers” as well as maintenance of platforms, the website says.
Accident Aboard Pemex Jack-Up Kills Two, Injures 10
https://gcaptain.com/accident-aboard-pemex-jack-up-kills-two/
...Pemex said the Troll Solution rig, which was contracted to operate in Pemex’s Abkatun-Pol-Chuc shallow water oil field, was positioning itself to carry out maintenance on wells linked to the Caan Alf platform....
...Local media put the injured toll at 28 workers.
A Grupo Salinas spokesperson added that there was no oil or gas spilled as a nearby well was closed prior to the incident.
Photos circulated on social media showed dark streaks in the water stretching a few hundred meters (yards) from what appeared to be the platform, which was tilting steeply.
A Pemex spokesman also said there had been no crude spill but added that the platform probably contained diesel. “That could have fallen into the water,” he added....
Jack up drilling platforms leave the equivalent of gopher holes where the legs punch into mud. Next jack-up on site has to make allowances. Possible a leg positioned too close could have started a collapse into one of them and buckled.
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