Nabors Industries Ltd. provides offshore platform work over and drilling rigs and manufactures top drives for a broad range of drilling applications, directional drilling systems, rig instrumentation and data collection equipment, pipeline handling equipment and rig reporting software.
A drilling rig reported 50 kn sustained winds.
After 10 weeks and several attempts, they were finally able to pinpoint the right spot and drill the well but ended up causing another explosion, which destroyed a $250 million rig, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
The Guardian highlights accusations that the Nicaraguan election was rigged (Report, 8 November), but provides no evidence except for predictable slurs from defeated opposition candidates.
Quite apart from the widespread rigging reported on polling day itself, the CPP's monopoly of the media means there has never been a level electoral playing field.
It says this is biased in favour of loyalists to the ruling Hashemites, Jordan's royal family, and worries about a repeat of the corruption and vote-rigging reported in 2007.
However, several offshore oil rigs reported winds of up to 90 mph, and one unofficial reading in Seadrift indicated winds of 96.6 mph.
Later on August 9, several rigs reported tropical storm-force winds – winds greater than 39 mph (63 km/h) – and the NHC estimated that the depression strengthened into a tropical storm.
The surging hydrocarbons were not diverted "overboard" but brought onto the rig The report says: Transocean's shut-in protocols did not fully address how to respond in high flow emergency situations after well control has been lost.
BP's verdict: Transocean to blame 6. Diversion of the oil and gas was "vented directly onto the rig" The report says: "The investigation team concludes that... the rig crew diverted the flow of hydrocarbons... [to] a low-pressure system, and its design limits would have been exceeded".
Dozens of Chinese and Vietnamese vessels have engaged in repeated skirmishes near the rig, including reported rammings and the use of water cannon.
