MEC&F Expert Engineers : HIGH POTENTIAL NEAR MISS ON THE WEST AQUARIUS DRILLING RIG. EXXONMOBIL AND CHEVRON CANADA ARE THE PRINCIPAL CURRENT OIL RIG OPERATORS.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

HIGH POTENTIAL NEAR MISS ON THE WEST AQUARIUS DRILLING RIG. EXXONMOBIL AND CHEVRON CANADA ARE THE PRINCIPAL CURRENT OIL RIG OPERATORS.






High Potential Near Miss on THE West Aquarius drilling rig.  ExxonMobil AND CHEVRON CANADA ARE the PRINCIPAL current oil rig operatorS.
December 3, 2014
Hibernia Management and Development Company (HMDC) reported a high potential near miss on West Aquarius drilling rig that occurred on December 3, 2014.  A bracket for the derrick elevator service loop dropped 22.5 meters (67 feet).   The service loop bracket is installed in the derrick/mast.  The service loops are power cables and/or hydraulic hoses for providing either power or fluids service. The bracket holds the wires/hoses together, that is also called wire holder.  The bracket weighs approximately 5 kg (11 pounds).  



Personnel were working on the drill floor, but not in the area of the dropped object.  Nobody was injured.
There are ways of minimizing the fall of a bracket. In an oil derrick separate service loops which are power cables and/or hydraulic hoses are affixed at one end to a top drive and affixed at an opposite end to an oil derrick end, adding a series of polyurethane supports or rungs along the length of the separate service loops to provide a little lateral motion but to limit the overall amount of lateral motion.  The rungs will also help insure that the cables and hoses do not wrap themselves around everything when the wind blows.  In order to carry the weight of the cables, two parallel steel cables are affixed on either side of the copper cables, and two steel cables are affixed on either side of the hydraulic hoses. These steel cables will be terminated at the derrick and the top drive by being affixed to steel brackets received in steel mounting plates all designed to withstand the loads.



Hibernia Shareholder companies
The shareholders of Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) are: ExxonMobil Canada (33.125%), Chevron Canada Resources (26.875%), Suncor (20%), Canada Hibernia Holding Corporation (8.5%), Murphy Oil (6.5%) and Statoil Canada Ltd. (5%).

Media Contacts:
Margot Bruce-O'Connell
HMDC Public Affairs
(709) 778-7222
margot.p.bruce-o'connell@exxonmobil.com
Sean Kelly M.A., APR, FCPRS
Manager of Public Relations
(709) 778-1418
skelly@cnlopb.ca


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