Chevron rig blaze flyover underway

Search continues: two still missing as KS Endeavor rig appears to be disintegrating

A flyover is currently taking place above a Chevron-chartered rig which is understood to still be ablaze following an apparent blowout off Nigeria on Monday.

The search continues for two rig workers, whom Upstream understands are from France and India, missing since the jack-up KS Endeavor was engulfed in flames on the Funiwa field in Block 86.

Nigerian officials are confident that there is little in the way of pollution from the blaze, dramatic pictures of which have been released by Chevron and appear to show the unit slipping into the sea.

Ian Laidlaw, operations manager at the Nigeria-based joint owner of the rig, Fode Drilling, told Upstream that the two missing rig personnel have yet to…

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