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Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, 267 kilometres (166 mi) east of St. John's, Newfoundland, for Mobil Oil of Canada, Ltd. (MOCAN) with 84 crew members on board when it sank.
Ranger Oil Corporation (formerly Penn Virginia Corporation) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil, NGLs and natural gas in various domestic onshore regions of the United States, with a primary focus in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.
In 1984 and 1985 the group drilled 14 wells, only six of which produced oil, and only at non-commercial levels. Ranger abandoned the project in 1985. Between 1981 and 1985 Ranger participated in several projects in Australia, including offshore in the North West Shelf and in several properties in Western Australia. In November 1985 it sold all ...
In 1982, Ocean Ranger, one of the company's oil platforms, sank in a violent storm in Canadian waters east of Newfoundland, killing 84 people. [4] [5] Also in 1982, the company took delivery of Odyssey. The rig suffered a blowout in 1988. [6] In 1991, Murphy Oil acquired the company. [7]
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board listed the total oil field production at 210 thousand barrels a day and 704 million barrels (111.9 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) as of August 2010. [10] The same update listed the Proven and Probable estimated reserves as being 1,395 million barrels (221.8 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of oil.
A 600-kilotonne gravity base structure (GBS) built after the Ocean Ranger disaster, it sits in 80 metres (44 fathoms) of water directly on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean 315 kilometres (196 mi) off St. John's, Newfoundland at
Leonard Lomell of the 2nd Ranger Battalion maintained that he and Ranger Jack Kuhn found the guns completely by accident after walking down a tree-lined lane, whilst on patrol. Multiple copies of the Rangers' orders were released in 2012 by the US National Archives, indicating that Lt. Col. Rudder had been told of the guns' removal prior to ...
Typhoon (built 2016, previous offshore wind support vessel, transferred to Border Force in 2021) [18] Ranger (built 2014, previous offshore wind support vessel, transferred to Border Force in 2021) [19] Defender (built 2013, previous offshore wind support vessel, transferred to Border Force in 2021) [20]