TRIDENT XIV DOCKS AT PIER IV FOR REPAIRS :

True to the adage that “Looking at the King’s mouth, one cannot tell if it also sucked breast milk”, it was impossible for anyone watching the Oil rig TRIDENTXIV gracefully move into dock to consider its journey from Limbe to Douala to have been anything less than pleasant and graceful.

Effective repair works could now begin on this Oil rig, property of “TRANSOCEAN", brought in for major servicing from its work site in an Angolan oil field.

These works which commenced on 10 February 2007 permanently absorb a pluri-disciplinary workforce of close to 400 Engineers and Technicians working in shifts 24/24hrs and all seven days of the week. The works envisaged to take another four months will require amongst others, the use of over 300T of steel, the sand blasting and painting of 14000m2 in the tanks, spud cans repairs, high and low pressure piping and scaffolding.

The confidence thus demonstrated by TRANSOCEAN in entrusting this complex assignment to CNIC comes as further recognition of the International professional standards of the company as this is the first time repair works of this scope are being carried out in any Oil rigs and ship repair facility on the African continent with the exception of South Africa.