Noble Drilling’s semisubmersible, Noble Jim Thompson is currently on location at Viosca Knoll Block 946 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for testing and commissioning work. The rig left Friede Goldman shipyard earlier this month and is the second EVA-4000 semisub conversion to be completed.
[pdf] Mars field was discovered in 1989 at around 130 miles south of New Orleans. The field, located at 3,000ft water deep, started production in 1996. Mars B was discovered after Shell geologists located untappe.
[pdf] Federal and state authorities are investigating the cause of the deadly explosion and fire at a natural gas drilling rig in southeastern Oklahoma on Monday. Five workers died in what appears to be one of the country’s deadliest onshore drilling accidents.
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