Qatari
offshore services contractor Gulf International Services has
informed that there has been an incident at the Maersk Oil-operated Al Shaheen
field, offshore Qatar.
According to
a statement by Gulf International Services, the company’s jack-up accommodation
unit “Rumailah”,
owned by its subsidiary “Gulf Drilling International”, will
need repairs and maintenance after the punch through incident on Sunday,
July 5, 2015 in the Al Shaheen field which is being operated by Maersk
Oil Qatar.
The
contractor said the repairs, to be carried out by Nakilat shipyard, will take
several months. In a filing to Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE), the
company said there were no injuries reported and that all personnel had been
safely evacuated from the vessel.
A Maersk Oil
spokesperson said: “We are supporting Gulf Drilling International (GDI)
following a punch through incident offshore on 5 July, involving the GDI owned
and operated Jack-up rig “Rumailah”. All personnel are safe and accounted for
and no damage to Al Shaheen facilities has been reported.”
Al-Shaheen
oil field, located 80 km off Qatar’s shores, is one of the largest oil fields in
the world and the largest oil producing field in Qatar. The field currently
produces around 300,000 barrels of oil per day. Maersk Oil Qatar has been the
operator of the field since 1992, under a 25-year exploration and
development agreement.
The
operatorship might change, as Qatar Petroleum (QP), Qatar’s
state-run oil and gas company, has issued invitations to international oil
& gas companies to compete for the future operation and development the
country’s largest offshore oil field Al-Shaheen, starting in mid-2017.
Source: www.offshoreenergytoday.com.
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