In a press release posted on Perenco’s web site on Wednesday, Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon revealed that the seek for a lacking particular person is ongoing following an incident that occurred on the Becuna platform off the coast of Gabon.
“The seek for the lacking particular person remains to be actively underway, with new land-based assets overlaying greater than 90km of shoreline, along with the air and sea assets already mobilized,” Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon stated within the assertion.
In a press release posted on Perenco’s web site on March 20, Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon introduced that an incident involving hearth had occurred on the Becuna platform. The incident passed off that day at roughly 15.25 Gabon time, in line with that assertion, which revealed that preliminary experiences indicated two individuals had been injured and 5 had been lacking.
“Each injured individuals have been evacuated to shore. The world has been secured, the hearth has been positioned beneath management and all personnel on the platform who weren’t injured have been moved to a secure location,” Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon stated in its March 20 assertion.
“Perenco has activated its emergency response process and is working intently with the emergency companies and the related authorities,” it added.
In a comply with up assertion posted on Perenco’s web site on March 21, Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon stated the hearth had been extinguished and the location had been safely secured. It confirmed, nonetheless, that there had been 5 fatalities and that one particular person was nonetheless lacking.
“Our ideas are with the bereaved households and we’re targeted on supporting them right now. Emergency groups proceed to be deployed on web site and to seek for the lacking particular person,” Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon stated in its March 21 assertion.
In its newest assertion, Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon revealed that worldwide consultants had arrived in Port-Gentil on Monday night “to help with the method of figuring out those that tragically died within the incident”. The consultants at the moment are working in shut collaboration with the authorities in command of the investigation, the corporate highlighted.
“In collaboration with the corporate Spie Oil & Fuel Gabon, Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon is coordinating help to the households of the victims throughout this painful interval with the assist of the UPEGA (Union Pétrolière Gabonaise) representing all the oil sector in Gabon,” Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon famous in its March 27 assertion.
“Given the technical complexity of the incident, Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon is mobilizing impartial consultants specializing within the evaluation of comparable occasions. The goal of this course of is to find out the exact causes, circumstances, and causes, as but undetermined, that led to this example,” it added.
“The security of workers engaged on our websites is our absolute precedence. We’ll do all the things in our energy to ascertain the reason for this accident, in collaboration with the Gabonese authorities, and take the required measures to make sure that it by no means occurs once more,” the corporate continued.
Rigzone requested a Perenco spokesperson on March 26 if there was an replace on the person who remains to be lacking, about the reason for the incident, and if manufacturing was affected. The spokesperson responded with Perenco Oil & Fuel Gabon’s March 27 assertion on the incident with out elaborating additional.
Perenco describes itself on its web site as a number one worldwide impartial hydrocarbon firm. The enterprise employs virtually 7,500 folks in whole and produces from a number of nations, together with Gabon, the UK, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, and Vietnam, its web site exhibits.
Perenco’s Gabon manufacturing in 2023 totaled 120,000 barrels of oil equal per day, in line with its web site.
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