NEW DELHI: A spate of coronavirus infections aboard western offshore installations has forced ONGC to evacuate one of the four rigs hired from Great Eastern Shipping\u2019s service arm and forced the state-run explorer to put additional checks to prevent contractors from compromising on the company\u2019s stringent crew changeover protocols to save cost.
\nSources said ONGC stopped the operation of \u2018Greatship Chitra\u2019 and ordered evacuation after 16 crew members tested Corona positive more than a week ago. \u2018Greatship Charu\u2019 was next to face the same fate. ONGC has also stopped payment by putting the rigs on \u2018zero-day-rate\u2019. A large number of cases have also been reported from BHS, Neelam and Bedlam installations.
\nThe outbreak has given rise to apprehensions that contractors may be cutting corners to save on additional cost of testing and quarantining the relieving crew since these are not covered under the rig contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: A spate of coronavirus infections aboard western offshore installations has forced ONGC to evacuate one of the four rigs hired from Great Eastern Shipping\u2019s service arm and forced the state-run explorer to put additional checks to prevent contractors from compromising on the company\u2019s stringent crew changeover protocols to save cost. Sources said ONGC stopped the operation of \u2018Greatship Chitra\u2019 and ordered evacuation after 16 crew members tested Corona positive more than a week ago. \u2018Greatship Charu\u2019 was next to face the same fate. ONGC has also stopped payment by putting the rigs on \u2018zero-day-rate\u2019. A large number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}