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Rig suffered water ingress off Galveston
The US Coast Guard was overseeing response efforts on Apr 15, 2014, for the "Ensco 8506" that began taking on water into a ballast tank after a large wave hit them in heavy seas more than 100 miles south of Galveston. In the morning the Coast Guard received a report that the offshore semi-submersible drilling rig had been damaged causing one of the rig’s column ballast tanks to take on water. The capacity of the ballast pumps onboard were keeping up with the ingress of water in the column ballast tank. The rig was maintaining an even keel and remained in a stable position without resorting to using the emergency pumps, or performing an emergency disconnect from the riser. The rig was conducting exploratory operations and did not have any oil product onboard from drilling operations. The drilling rig was operating in an area with a 3,800-foot water depth and was not conducting actual drilling operations when the incident occurred. All rig operations have been suspended and preparations are being made for normal disconnect procedures if necessary to make repairs. The Coast Guard has deployed the Coast Guard Cutter "Skipjack", homeported in Galveston, and an aircrew aboard an HU-25 Falcon airplane from Air Station Corpus Christi to provide on-site intelligence and to assist if necessary. The onscene weather was 20 knot sustained winds and 12 foot seas.
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