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Friday, December 23, 2011
37 missing as Russian oil rig sinks
Rescuers have saved 14 of the 67 people who were on board a floating oil rig which capsized in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia’s Far East, according to latest reports.
Nine more dead bodies have been found in the freezing waters off Russia's Far East coast, where an oil rig capsized.
It brings the death toll to 16, with 37 still missing, more than a day after the tragedy happened.
The Kolskaya rig was being towed by an icebreaker and a tow boat to Sakhalin Island after finishing its drill mission when the disaster happened. A distress signal was sent from it on Sunday morning.
The rescuers have already found three lifeboats – all of them were empty. The chances of survival of those missing are now close to zero because these lifeboats were their only chance for survival in the freezing waters. The temperature on Sakhalin Island at present is -20 C.
“It means that the crew was not able to get down in the lifeboats. The boats were washed away with the flow of the water,” said the rescue operation co-ordinator, Veniamin Ivanychev.
Still, one lifeboat remains unaccounted for by search and rescue teams and it could potentially be found with survivors on board.
This is an extract from http://rt.com/news/drilling-rig-overturns-okhotsk-073/
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Nine more dead bodies have been found in the freezing waters off Russia's Far East coast, where an oil rig capsized.
It brings the death toll to 16, with 37 still missing, more than a day after the tragedy happened.
The Kolskaya rig was being towed by an icebreaker and a tow boat to Sakhalin Island after finishing its drill mission when the disaster happened. A distress signal was sent from it on Sunday morning.
The rescuers have already found three lifeboats – all of them were empty. The chances of survival of those missing are now close to zero because these lifeboats were their only chance for survival in the freezing waters. The temperature on Sakhalin Island at present is -20 C.
“It means that the crew was not able to get down in the lifeboats. The boats were washed away with the flow of the water,” said the rescue operation co-ordinator, Veniamin Ivanychev.
Still, one lifeboat remains unaccounted for by search and rescue teams and it could potentially be found with survivors on board.
This is an extract from http://rt.com/news/drilling-rig-overturns-okhotsk-073/
Land Drilling Rigs , Offshore Drilling Rigs, Jackup Rigs
Saudi Aramco’s Drilling to Jump 12% Next Year
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. plans to increase its drilling-rig count by 12 percent next year to 145 to boost natural-gas and oil output from its Manifa field, a former executive of state-run company said.
Extract from http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-22/saudi-aramco-s-drilling-to-jump-12-next-year-ex-official-says.html
Extract from http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-22/saudi-aramco-s-drilling-to-jump-12-next-year-ex-official-says.html
Friday, December 16, 2011
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Monday, December 12, 2011
3 1/16" 10K API Choke Manifold for Sale- Worldoils Oil, gas and offshore equipment marketplace
Description
Part Number : 3-1/16" 10K MANIFOLD
3 1/16” 10K Eruption Manifold to includes the following :
Unit : Each
Quantity : 1
Part Number : FCM311610DDS
Gate valve, 3 1/16" 10M Cameron Style type FC manual gate valve, MATL
Class: DD (H2S service super / trim), Temp : PU, PSL: 1, PR:1, API 6A,
Flanged BX-154
Unit : Each
Quantity : 8
Part Number : H2A311610EES-32FLG
Adjustable choke, 3 1/16" 10M (3" Nominal, 2" Max Orifice) Cameron
style H2, MATL: EE (H2S / Low CO2 Service - SS/TC trim), Temp: PU,
PSL: 1, PR: 1, API 6A, Flanged BX-154
Unit : Each
Quantity : 2
Part Number : TEE311610(3)
Tee studded 3 1/16" 10M (3 way), MATL: DD (H2S service), Temp: PU,
PSL: 1, API 6A, BX-154
Unit : Each
Quantity : 5
Part Number : SPOOL311610(2)X21-30IN-PSL2
Spool, 3 1/16" 10M (2-way) X 21-30 inches, MATL: DD (H2S service),
Temp: PU, PSL: 2, API 6A, BX-154
Unit : Each
Quantity : 1
Part Number : SPOOL311610(2)10-20IN
Spool 3 1/16" 10M (2-way) 10-20" MATL: DD (H2S service), Temp: PU,
PSL: 1, API 6A, BX-154
Unit : Each
Quantity : 4
Part Number : FUE311610X3"FIG1502-FEMALE
Flange X Union Adapter 3 1/16" 10M X 3" FIG 1502 female union half,
MATL: DD, Temp: PU, PSL: 1, API6A
Unit : Each
Quantity : 4
Part Number : FUE311610X3"FIG1502-MALE
Flange X Union Adapter 3 1/16" 10M X 3" FIG 1502 male union half
PSL:1 serv Temp class : PU, MATL Class: DD
Unit : Each
Quantity : 1
Part Number : SKID - M
Skid for manifold w/tool box
Unit : Each
Quantity : 1
Part Number : Stud, Nuts & Ring Gaskets
Lot of studs,nuts & ring gaskets for assembly of manifold
Unit : Each
Quantity : 1
Part Number : Ass/Test/Paint-Onshorespec
Assemble, test & paint choke manifold
Unit : Each
Quantity : 1
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
DP2 Platform Supply Vessel for Sale UT755LN
DP2 Platform Supply Vessel for Sale UT755LN
TYPE : UT755 LN
Platform Supply Vessel (PSV)
SPECIAL FEATURES
Rolls Royce Bulk Handling System
Tank Washing System
Anti Rolling Tanks
DP 2 System
CLASSIFICATION
+1A1 – Fire Fighter I SF E0 DYNPOSAUTR
CLEAN DK(+) HL(2.8) TMON
COMF(V3)
DIMENSIONS AND MAIN DATADeadweight: abt. 3300ts
Draft loaded: 5, 83 m
Draft scantling: 6, 25 m
Length o.a.: 73, 60 m
Length B.P.: 68, 30 m
Beam: 16, 00 m
Depth MD Midship: 7, 00 m
ENGINES
Main engine: 2x MaK 6M25
2x 1980 kW @ 750 r.p.m.
Propulsion System: 2 Kamewa CPP &,
reduction gear.
Aux Diesel Generator: 2 x 320 kW
Shaft Generator: 2 x 1750 kVA
Emergency diesel generator: 1x 72kW
Bowthruster: Forward: 2x 590 kW
Aft: 2 x 590 kW
Kameva Ulstein Air cooled thruster
motors
Rudder: 2 x Flap Rudder Highlift
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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RD20 Range III Land Rig For Sale- Worldoils Oil, gas and offshore equipment marketplace
RD20 Range III Land Rig For Sale
New LPG Tanks for Sale - 90,000 Gal 250 Psi - 5 units available- Worldoils Oil, gas and offshore equipment marketplace
Specifications
90,000 Gal
250 Psi
New Units
5 Units available for sale
Price : USD 458,000 each
90,000 Gal
250 Psi
New Units
5 Units available for sale
Price : USD 458,000 each
Sunday, November 27, 2011
137M Pipelaying Barge for Sale or Charter- Worldoils Oil, gas and offshore equipment marketplace
Specifications
Length O.A - 137.25m
Breadth mld : 37.82m
Depth mld : 9.00m
Complement - 300 men
Friday, November 25, 2011
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Oil boom pushes out North Dakota seniors
WILLISTON, N.D. — After living all of her 82 years in the same community, Lois Sinness left her hometown this month, crying and towing a U-Haul packed with her every possession.
She didn't want to go, but the rent on her $700-a-month apartment was going up almost threefold because of heightened demand for housing generated by North Dakota's oil bonanza. Other seniors in her complex and across the western part of the state are in the same predicament.
"Our rents were raised, and we did not have a choice," Sinness said. "We're all on fixed incomes, living mostly on Social Security, so it's been a terrible shock."
It's an irony of the area's economic success: The same booming development that made North Dakota virtually immune to the Great Recession has forced many longtime residents to abandon their homes, including seniors who carved towns like Williston out of the unforgiving prairie long before oil money arrived.
In addition to raising the rent, Sinness' landlords were going to require even long-term tenants to pay a $2,000 deposit. She fled for a cheaper apartment in Bismarck, beyond the oil patch, where her daughter also lives. Her new home is 230 miles away.
Thanks to new drilling techniques that make it possible to tap once-unreachable caches of crude, a region that used to have plenty of elbow room is now swarming with armies of workers. Nodding pumps dot the wide, mostly barren landscape.
But because it has limited housing, the area is ill-prepared to handle the influx of people. The result is some rents have risen to the level of some of the nation's largest cities, with modest two-bedroom apartments commonly going for as much as $2,000.
The skyrocketing cost of living is all the talk at the senior center in downtown Williston.
"Grandma can't go to work in the oil fields and make a 150 grand a year," said A.J. Mock, director of the Williston Council for the Aging. Many of the seniors who are moving out "have lived here their entire lives and wanted to live here until they die."
Ellavon Weber, 88, is getting elbowed out of the state entirely. She's reluctantly moving to Arizona, where two of her three children live, leaving behind friends, her church and her weekly aerobics classes, as well as pinochle games and quilting bees. She says she will even miss the brutal winters.
"I thought I'd be in North Dakota the rest of my life, but evidently, that's not the case," Weber said.
Drilling operations have transformed the area, which now resembles an industrial park. Previously uncongested highways and city streets are clogged with 18-wheelers.
Some workers live in tents, cars and campers. Hotels are booked for months. Just a handful of homes were listed for sale in October in Williston, including a humble mobile home priced at $149,500. Two mobile home parks that were abandoned after the last oil bust are now full.
In most of the surrounding towns, temporary housing camps have sprung up. Because many of them are little more than dormitories made out of shipping containers, some communities have banned them for sanitary and safety reasons.
Flooding that damaged thousands of homes in nearby Minot last summer has exacerbated the housing shortage.
Developers have been slow to build more apartments, largely because they got stung by the region's last oil boom when it went bust in the 1980s. About 1,000 new housing units are planned for this year, but no one expects them to make a real dent in demand.
Local officials are "turning over every rock to see if we can find a solution," Mayor Ward Koeser said. But "nothing has been found yet." He blamed the issue on supply and demand, and in some cases, greed and gouging.
North Dakota law forbids capping rental rates. And dozens of low-income housing units built decades ago now are being used to house oil workers at higher prices.
Jolene Kline, director of the state's Housing Finance Agency, said landlords who have pulled out of the low-income program have fulfilled legal requirements to provide the housing for 15 or 30 years. But, she added, that doesn't make it right.
"You can't put people in these situations, and in the worst cases, make them homeless because they can't afford shelter anymore," Kline said.
Eighty-year-old Mayo Miller hand-delivered her rent check last month just so she could give her landlord a hug and thank her for not raising the rent.
Miller's rent has jumped just $200 in 20 years, to $550. She said that increase has been fair, especially since her apartment could easily fetch $3,000 a month from a homeless-but-moneyed oil worker.
Nancy Hoffelt's family owns the apartment complex, and she remembers when tenants were in short supply just a few years ago.
The family made a decision to keep rental rates within reason, especially for seniors.
"You just realize that not everybody out there is making money from oil," Hoffelt said.
Like many apartment owners in the oil patch, Hoffelt no longer answers the telephone.
"We don't have vacancies," she said. "When we'd get calls, their stories were just heart-wrenching."
Alton and Mary Lou Sundby, both in their early 70s, were notified last month their rent would nearly triple. The two almost were forced to move in with their children who live out of state. But an apartment opened recently at a senior housing complex where they had been on a waiting list for more than seven years.
Mary Lou Sundby, who works part-time with mentally challenged adults, said she never thought she would be ashamed of the town where she and her husband, a retired truck driver, were raised and raised their own family.
"It just boils down to morals and ethics," she said. "And I think we're losing those in our hometown and everything it stood for."
Sinness hopes she eventually will be able to return to her hometown. She's on a waiting list for an assisted-living complex for seniors. She also owns mineral rights on land where her grandparents homesteaded a century ago.
Oil companies now are eyeing the property for drilling, and she might reap oil royalties.
"I'm going to be buried in Williston, next to my husband, so I'm coming back dead or alive," she said. "But I'll never pay $2,000 for rent."
This is an extract from : http://www.dailyworld.com/article/20111120/NEWS01/111200305/Oil-boom-pushes-out-North-Dakota-seniors
She didn't want to go, but the rent on her $700-a-month apartment was going up almost threefold because of heightened demand for housing generated by North Dakota's oil bonanza. Other seniors in her complex and across the western part of the state are in the same predicament.
"Our rents were raised, and we did not have a choice," Sinness said. "We're all on fixed incomes, living mostly on Social Security, so it's been a terrible shock."
It's an irony of the area's economic success: The same booming development that made North Dakota virtually immune to the Great Recession has forced many longtime residents to abandon their homes, including seniors who carved towns like Williston out of the unforgiving prairie long before oil money arrived.
In addition to raising the rent, Sinness' landlords were going to require even long-term tenants to pay a $2,000 deposit. She fled for a cheaper apartment in Bismarck, beyond the oil patch, where her daughter also lives. Her new home is 230 miles away.
Thanks to new drilling techniques that make it possible to tap once-unreachable caches of crude, a region that used to have plenty of elbow room is now swarming with armies of workers. Nodding pumps dot the wide, mostly barren landscape.
But because it has limited housing, the area is ill-prepared to handle the influx of people. The result is some rents have risen to the level of some of the nation's largest cities, with modest two-bedroom apartments commonly going for as much as $2,000.
The skyrocketing cost of living is all the talk at the senior center in downtown Williston.
"Grandma can't go to work in the oil fields and make a 150 grand a year," said A.J. Mock, director of the Williston Council for the Aging. Many of the seniors who are moving out "have lived here their entire lives and wanted to live here until they die."
Ellavon Weber, 88, is getting elbowed out of the state entirely. She's reluctantly moving to Arizona, where two of her three children live, leaving behind friends, her church and her weekly aerobics classes, as well as pinochle games and quilting bees. She says she will even miss the brutal winters.
"I thought I'd be in North Dakota the rest of my life, but evidently, that's not the case," Weber said.
Drilling operations have transformed the area, which now resembles an industrial park. Previously uncongested highways and city streets are clogged with 18-wheelers.
Some workers live in tents, cars and campers. Hotels are booked for months. Just a handful of homes were listed for sale in October in Williston, including a humble mobile home priced at $149,500. Two mobile home parks that were abandoned after the last oil bust are now full.
In most of the surrounding towns, temporary housing camps have sprung up. Because many of them are little more than dormitories made out of shipping containers, some communities have banned them for sanitary and safety reasons.
Flooding that damaged thousands of homes in nearby Minot last summer has exacerbated the housing shortage.
Developers have been slow to build more apartments, largely because they got stung by the region's last oil boom when it went bust in the 1980s. About 1,000 new housing units are planned for this year, but no one expects them to make a real dent in demand.
Local officials are "turning over every rock to see if we can find a solution," Mayor Ward Koeser said. But "nothing has been found yet." He blamed the issue on supply and demand, and in some cases, greed and gouging.
North Dakota law forbids capping rental rates. And dozens of low-income housing units built decades ago now are being used to house oil workers at higher prices.
Jolene Kline, director of the state's Housing Finance Agency, said landlords who have pulled out of the low-income program have fulfilled legal requirements to provide the housing for 15 or 30 years. But, she added, that doesn't make it right.
"You can't put people in these situations, and in the worst cases, make them homeless because they can't afford shelter anymore," Kline said.
Eighty-year-old Mayo Miller hand-delivered her rent check last month just so she could give her landlord a hug and thank her for not raising the rent.
Miller's rent has jumped just $200 in 20 years, to $550. She said that increase has been fair, especially since her apartment could easily fetch $3,000 a month from a homeless-but-moneyed oil worker.
Nancy Hoffelt's family owns the apartment complex, and she remembers when tenants were in short supply just a few years ago.
The family made a decision to keep rental rates within reason, especially for seniors.
"You just realize that not everybody out there is making money from oil," Hoffelt said.
Like many apartment owners in the oil patch, Hoffelt no longer answers the telephone.
"We don't have vacancies," she said. "When we'd get calls, their stories were just heart-wrenching."
Alton and Mary Lou Sundby, both in their early 70s, were notified last month their rent would nearly triple. The two almost were forced to move in with their children who live out of state. But an apartment opened recently at a senior housing complex where they had been on a waiting list for more than seven years.
Mary Lou Sundby, who works part-time with mentally challenged adults, said she never thought she would be ashamed of the town where she and her husband, a retired truck driver, were raised and raised their own family.
"It just boils down to morals and ethics," she said. "And I think we're losing those in our hometown and everything it stood for."
Sinness hopes she eventually will be able to return to her hometown. She's on a waiting list for an assisted-living complex for seniors. She also owns mineral rights on land where her grandparents homesteaded a century ago.
Oil companies now are eyeing the property for drilling, and she might reap oil royalties.
"I'm going to be buried in Williston, next to my husband, so I'm coming back dead or alive," she said. "But I'll never pay $2,000 for rent."
This is an extract from : http://www.dailyworld.com/article/20111120/NEWS01/111200305/Oil-boom-pushes-out-North-Dakota-seniors
Portable Homes for Sale- Worldoils Oil, gas and offshore equipment marketplace
Description
The units are thermal zone III and wind zone III meaning that they are intended for cold
climate and high sustained wind activity in excess of 110 mph. The units include all
appliances, furniture and HVAC (heat with air conditioning).
These units do not require escorts as they are 12’ wide. The units utilize 10” frame
rails as part of the ruggedized construction. They also have fire extinguishers, smoke
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radios that will alarm prior to the arrival of dangerous wind storms.
Currently there are 47 of these units available for immediate delivery with an additional
25 units being completed on the factory line.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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