The miss­ing work­er on the col­lapsed off­shore drilling rig has been iden­ti­fied as Pe­te Phillip.

The search is still on for Phillip fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent short­ly af­ter 3 o' clock this morn­ing, in which Rig 110 in the Sol­da­do Field col­lapsed and scores of work­ers were evac­u­at­ed. The rig is owned and op­er­at­ed by Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed.

Mean­while, Well Ser­vices says it has be­come aware of sev­er­al mis­lead­ing state­ments cir­cu­lat­ing on­line re­gard­ing to­day’s in­ci­dent on Rig 110.

"We would like to clar­i­fy that claims sug­gest­ing the miss­ing per­son has been lo­cat­ed and is in com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the res­cue team are false. As search and res­cue con­tin­ues, Well Ser­vices is com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing ac­cu­rate and time­ly up­dates as the sit­u­a­tion de­vel­ops."

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This is a de­vel­op­ing sto­ry and will be up­dat­ed as more in­for­ma­tion comes to hand.