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Monday, February 24, 2025

Well Services hires int'l company as recovery effort continues

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Ryan Bachoo
32 days ago
20250123
 Well Services Limited employee Pete Phillip, who went missing  after the collapse of an off-shore oil rig in the sea, at the Heritage Offshore East Field, yesterday.

Well Services Limited employee Pete Phillip, who went missing after the collapse of an off-shore oil rig in the sea, at the Heritage Offshore East Field, yesterday.

Ryan Ba­choo

Well Ser­vices says it has hired a third-par­ty com­pa­ny to sup­ply the spe­cialised equip­ment re­quired for the re­cov­ery of Pe­te Phillip's body.

The com­pa­ny did not re­veal the in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­i­sa­tion hired but said it "is a high­ly re­gard­ed provider of ad­vanced equip­ment with the req­ui­site ex­per­tise for this type of op­er­a­tion."

A state­ment on Thurs­day af­ter­noon went fur­ther in say­ing, "This en­gage­ment will en­able the com­pa­ny to ac­cel­er­ate its ef­forts to en­sure the re­cov­ery of Pe­te Phillip in com­pli­ance with all safe­ty and en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­to­cols."

Well Ser­vices al­so said a What­sApp group was cre­at­ed to fa­cil­i­tate di­rect and time­ly up­dates with the fam­i­ly mem­bers. "This group has been in­stru­men­tal in pro­vid­ing in­for­ma­tion to en­sure that per­sons are kept in the loop re­gard­ing the sta­tus and progress of the re­cov­ery ef­forts. The lat­est up­date to the fam­i­ly was pro­vid­ed yes­ter­day."

On Jan­u­ary 10, Well Ser­vices said it had lo­cat­ed Phillip's body.

At 3.09 am on De­cem­ber 22, 2024, the der­rick of Rig 110, which was en­gaged in drilling ac­tiv­i­ties at the time, par­tial­ly col­lapsed with 75 per­son­nel on­board. One per­son sus­tained in­juries and was in sta­ble con­di­tion and sent for med­ical care. Phillip was nev­er found.


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