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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.
The Ranger 23 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a masthead sloop rig, with a 4:1 mainsheet, 2:1 outhaul, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin keel.
The Ranger 24 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. The hull has a single hard chine and positive flotation, making the boat unsinkable. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed swept fin keel. It displaces 3,150 lb (1,429 kg ...
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 ...
The Hibernia Gravity Base Structure is an offshore oil platform on the Hibernia oilfield ... (GBS) built after the Ocean Ranger disaster, it sits in 80 metres ...
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 Ranger 29 and 33 have always been competitive when well sailed and are still competitive in club racing. The Ranger 37 was designed to the IOR handicap rule and was the last production boat to win the Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC is a winter ocean race out of Miami, Florida). The Ranger 32 is still competitive under PHRF handicap.
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.