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Oil Rig in Firth of Forth

Posted in Kirkcaldy, Shipping at 20:05 on 27 January 2014

The rig has been off Kirkcaldy for about a week now. I can’t find out anything about it on the net beyond its presence.

Does anybody know if there’s an oil rig location website similar to ais.com, which is for ships?

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  1. jackdeighton

    28 January 2014 at 19:51

    Apparently it’s called the Wilhunter. Gentoo2 commented on my flickr:-
    “The rig is the semi-submersible drilling platform called the ‘Wilhunter’
    It arrived in the Forth overnight Jan 15th/16th with three tugs (Magne Viking, Balder Viking, Olympic Zeus) and a safety vessel (Grampian Defiance).
    It took 24 hours to deploy the anchors and the tugs have now left, though the safety vessel is still standing by.
    It is parked at mooring K6 and will remain up to 2 weeks.
    I found the information on the Forth Ports Authority website.”

  2. Jonathan

    2 February 2014 at 13:40

    There’s two now! One right off the beach in Burntisland, and one off the coast of Kirkcaldy! WTF!!!

  3. jackdeighton

    2 February 2014 at 17:26

    Thanks Jonathan,
    I haven’t been along to Burntisland recently so I didn’t know about that one.
    I can remember a time when there were three or four rigs in the North Sea off Kikrcaldy waiting to be towed to a drilling site but that was when the oil boom was at its height.

  4. Kevin

    4 February 2014 at 21:03

    http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/9193783/vessel:MAERSK_ASSISTER

    No sign of the rig ……….. three “support vessels tho’ (?)

  5. jackdeighton

    4 February 2014 at 23:10

    Thanks for commenting, Kevin.
    I’ve noticed shipais.com doesn’t seem to list rigs.

  6. Flossoffa

    6 February 2014 at 18:10

    It’s awa’ noo.

  7. jackdeighton

    6 February 2014 at 19:36

    Thanks Flosoffa,
    I saw some tugs lining up beside it early this afternoon so I thought it might be for the off.

  8. jazzy7070

    21 April 2014 at 19:32

    the rig at burnt island is the safe caledonia,its a semi submersible accomadation rig

  9. jackdeighton

    21 April 2014 at 20:08

    Thanks, jazzy.

  10. ewa

    5 May 2014 at 17:50

    Hi.
    I’m new to Burntisland and was just searching about this.
    The one off Burntisland beach has disappeared recently.
    Does it come and go?.

  11. jackdeighton

    5 May 2014 at 20:31

    Hi Ewa,
    Thanks for looking in.
    Rigs appear and disappear off the Fife coast. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about their movements to answer your question about any particular rig.

  12. Jazzy7070

    5 May 2014 at 20:31

    Safe Caledonia completed operations for BP on 31 March. The vessel is currently at Burntisland in the UK for preparatory work before mobilising for a contract with Nexen in the UK commencing early June 2014.
    http://www.prosafe.com/news-room/operational-update-for-q1-2014-article2513-11.html

  13. Jazzy7070

    5 May 2014 at 20:53

    They will come and go in between contracts for work that has to be done,work that can’t be done offshore

  14. jackdeighton

    6 May 2014 at 00:30

    Thanks for the update, Jazzy.

  15. Jeff Mitchell

    17 September 2018 at 11:30

    yay! looking forward to them going, was worried they were drilling, like some sort of fracking there

  16. jackdeighton

    17 September 2018 at 19:05

    Jeff,
    I think they just moor there between jobs elsewhere.
    Thanks for looking in and commenting.

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