(Replace) November 27, 2024, 6:07 AM EST: Article up to date with HSE remark.
In an announcement despatched to Rigzone late Tuesday, Harbour Power confirmed {that a} collision between a provide vessel and the Valaris 120 rig occurred within the North Sea on Sunday evening.
“As a precautionary measure, 52 non-essential personnel have been downmanned from the Valaris 120 set up situated at Block 30/7A, following a collision between a provide vessel and the rig which occurred at 22.18 on Sunday 24,” Harbour mentioned within the assertion.
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The corporate revealed within the assertion that the non-essential personnel had been flown to Aberdeen on three separate flights on November 25. There have been 128 personnel onboard the Valaris 120 previous to the incident, in keeping with the assertion.
“Individuals are our precedence, and everybody onboard the rig and the vessel is secure and properly,” Harbour famous within the assertion.
“Our incident response groups have been mobilized and are in liaison with the related authorities. Additional info can be made accessible when particulars are confirmed,” it added.
Harbour highlighted within the assertion that the Valaris 120 rig is situated roughly 150 miles east of Aberdeen. It famous that the rig is “at the moment interfaced with the Judy set up as a part of the mixed operation”.
A Harbour Power spokesperson advised Rigzone that the incident had no impression on manufacturing.
In response to a reality sheet hosted on Valaris’ web site, the Valaris 120 rig has a leg size of 540 toes, a hull size of 246 toes, and a hull width of 250 toes. It has lodging house for 150 individuals, the actual fact sheet reveals.
Rigzone contacted Valaris, business physique Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), UK oil and fuel regulator the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), and UK office well being and security regulator Well being and Security Govt (HSE) for touch upon Harbour Power’s assertion.
In response, a HSE spokesperson mentioned, “we can be conducting an investigation into this incident and stay in touch with the related events”.
OEUK and the NSTA declined to remark. Valaris has not but responded to Rigzone’s request on the time of writing.
In an announcement posted on its web site in September, Valaris introduced a three-year contract extension with Harbour Power within the UK North Sea for heavy responsibility harsh atmosphere jackup Valaris 120.
The extension interval is predicted to begin within the third quarter 2025 in direct continuation of the prevailing agency program, Valaris mentioned in that assertion.
Block 30/7A is situated within the UK central North Sea and contains the Judy and Joanne belongings, Harbour Power’s web site reveals.
“They sit in quadrant 30 of the J-Space (or J-Block) with overlapping reservoirs. Judy is a manned platform with lodging, manufacturing, processing and fuel injection tools. Joanne is a subsea manifold with six subsea wells tied again to Judy,” the positioning provides.
“Business oil manufacturing and fuel gross sales from Judy/Joanne started in 1997. After being processed on Judy, fuel is transported by means of the CATS Pipeline and liquids are transported by means of the Norpipe system to Teesside,” it continues.
Harbour Power describes itself as the most important London-listed unbiased oil and fuel firm with a worldwide portfolio. Again in September, it introduced that the acquisition of the Wintershall Dea asset portfolio had been accomplished.
Following completion, Harbour is producing round 475,000 barrels of oil equal per day “with vital manufacturing in Norway, the UK, Argentina, North Africa, and Germany”, the corporate highlighted in that announcement.
In an announcement posted on its web site in December final yr, Harbour introduced that it had reached an settlement with BASF and LetterOne for the acquisition of considerably all of Wintershall Dea’s upstream belongings for $11.2 billion.
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