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| KS Endeavor On Fire. Photo Credit: Chevron |
The fire that destroyed a Chevron gas rig, KS Endeavor, off Nigeria’s coast
has stopped after forty-six days. The fire, rumoured to have been caused by
natural gas killed two of the company’s workers, an Indian and a French.
The stoppage was announced today by the American Oil and Gas major.
“Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) announced that the fire at the site of the
Funiwa 1A natural gas well offshore Nigeria ceased burning on Friday, March 2.
The well stopped flowing on its own.
CNL has detected no natural gas flowing from the well since the fire ceased
burning and is monitoring the area continuously.
CNL will continue to drill the relief
well to permanently plug and abandon Funiwa 1A”, the company said in a message
titled “Gas Well Fire Offshore Nigeria No Longer Burning”
posted on its website.
The fire started after an explosion on January 16th at Funiwa
field near Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta region. The rig later sunk into the
Ocean.
Up to the time of preparing this report, the real cause of the fire has not been
unraveled.
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