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Ninety fabrication workers were injured after a jack-up rig being built at Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard tilted to one side on Monday morning, amid reports of explosions and snapping cables.
The rig involved in the incident was identified as the Noble 1 by a spokesman for contractor National Oilwell Varco (NOV), which had workers on board at the time, Petro Media News reported.
"Preliminary findings indicate that the jack-up mechanism of one of the legs of a three-legged jack-up rig had failed, causing the rig to tilt to one side," Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower said in a statement.
One worker was in a critical condition and 22 others were seriously injured in the incident, with casualties taken to four different hospitals in the Lion City.
Local media reports quoted workers as saying they heard loud explosions and saw cables snapping as the rig tilted.
Workers told Channel NewsAsia that they were carrying out welding, fitting and piping work on the rig when it started to tilt.
Jurong owner Sembcorp Marine said in a statement the incident occurred at around 10:30 local time during a jacking test of the rig.
"All personnel working on board are accounted for with no fatalities,” the statement read.
The NOV spokesman said the company had 18 workers on board at the time of the incident, 15 of whom are Norwegians, adding that all of them were in “good condition”.
Jurong confirmed that 53 out of 90 workers initially sent to hospital had been discharged by 17:10 local time, while four were still receiving treatment and the rest were under review.
The ministry said most of the workers had minor injuries, such as back strains and abrasions.
SembMarine stated: "The shipyard is presently investigating the cause of the incident.”
Officers from the ministry’s Occupational Health & Safety Inspectorate were also at the yard site to investigate the incident.
All work has stopped on the rig, the owner of which has not yet been finally confirmed.
The NOV spokesman said: “We know that it was jack-up Noble 1 that listed. We also know that our equipment is not to blame.”
The Noble 1, to be formally named Noble Regina Allen, is an advanced Friede & Goldman JU-3000N-design jack-up capable of working in a water depth of 400 feet being built for Swiss-based rig contractor Noble Corporation.
The rig has been contracted to Gaz de France for a dayrate of $230,000, with estimated start-up in the first half of 2013, according to Noble’s latest fleet status report.
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