The Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig has resumed operations after the accident.
The Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig has resumed operations off the coast of the United Kingdom after a 106-day shutdown caused by an incident in which equipment fell to the seabed. There were no injuries or environmental damage reported.
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The drilling rig, designed for operations at significant depths, has resumed work in the UK after more than a hundred days of downtime. The halt was caused by an incident in April, when the blowout preventer was dropped to the seabed.
The rig’s owner, Odfjell Drilling, reported that the rig was sent to a dock in Norway for repairs and remained out of service for 106 days.
The incident occurred on April 18 on the Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible rig, which at the time was operating at the Rosebank oil field, west of the Shetland Islands. As a result of the event, the blowout preventer and part of the subsea pipeline ended up on the seabed at a depth of about 1,100 meters. No personnel were injured, and there was no environmental damage.
Odfjell Drilling noted that it had insurance covering the costs of retrieving the blowout preventer and carrying out the necessary repairs.