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Search for missing worker scaled down

An air and sea search for a man reported missing from the "Noble Lloyd Noble" installation was launched on May 9, 2017, at 9.20 p.m. in the Mariner Field, approximately 90 miles east of Shetland, after a search of the rig failed to locate him. A Coastguard search and rescue helicopter was called out but later returned to base. Two standby vessels and a platform supply vessel were continuing to search. Noble Drilling said mobilised emergency response teams in Aberdeen and Stavanger to support the search effort. Statoil vessels have been involved in an extensive search of the water surrounding the rig and continued to do everything we can to support the ongoing search effort. All operations have been stood down on the rig. An extensive search of the rig itself and the water surrounding it was ongoing, led by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), involving the use of a search and rescue helicopter, two standby vessels and a platform supply vessel. The search was meanwhile scaled down.

Aqualis Offshore oversees transport of world’s largest jackup

Aqualis Offshore has been contracted by Noble Corporation to oversee the load-on, transportation and load-off operations of the first journey of the world’s largest jackup rig, the NOBLE LLOYD NOBLE. Aqualis Offshore’s scope of work includes providing marine warranty services for the load-on, transportation and load-off operations of the giant jackup. Aqualis Offshore will ride with the ship for the first leg of the journey from Singapore to Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The rig’s ultimate destination is Statoil’s Mariner field development in the UK sector of the North Sea.