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Coastal Drilling is pleased to announce that Rig 22, a 3000 HP posted barge, has completed its second year of drilling for McMoRan. The rig's TRIR for 2009 is 0.00.

Several thousand litres of drilling mud spilled on the deck of a rig working at an offshore oil field southeast of Newfoundland, regulators have reported.

It includes virtually everything except living quarters. Major components of the rig include the mud tanks, the mud pumps, the derrick or mast, the drawworks, the rotary table or topdrive, the ...

The board that regulates Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry says more than 26,000 litres of drilling mud spill from an oil rig operating east of St. John's Monday.

CHICO — It was not Africa or a desert, but rather omnipresent puddles and thick oozing mud, where Friday some Chico High School students learned lessons in drilling wells and employing “plan B ...

By filling the well’s pipe system with dense drilling mud, BP is hoping to block all of the upward paths oil could take from its reservoir miles beneath the sea bed.

On offshore drilling rigs, it is common to give all workers onboard, and even other passengers who may be laymen, the authority to stop work if they see an unsafe condition.

The board that regulates Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry says more than 26,000 litres of drilling mud spill from an oil rig operating east of St. John's Monday.