Uche Dimiri’s Depthwize, ExxonMobil Brace For Financial Damages Battle Over Drilling Rigs Collapse On Pipeline

Information available have it that Depthwize, the Nigerian service company with Uche Dimiri as Co founder and current Chief Executive Officer is about to engage in battle over financial damages claim by one of its major clients, Exxonmobil.

According to a report available

Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, a subsidiary of the ExxonMobil Corporation is set to seek financial damages against a drilling contractor for Conoil Producing Limited, which allegedly damaged ExxonMobil’s pipeline and halted significant production of the company’s Qua Iboe grade of crude oil, ThisDay reports. A drilling rig, which was contracted to drill for Conoil on the Anim Field, located in the Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) 290, allegedly collapsed on an ExxonMobil pipeline, after developing mechanical faults, causing damage, which resulted in both an oil spill and production curtailment. The jack up rig in question, christened ‘Monarch’, was operated by Nigerian service company, Depthwize, which was working for Conoil.

A source at ExxonMobil, who craved anonymity, said that the company was set to seek huge financial claims against the drilling contractor for the company’s loss of production, as well as the oil spill caused by the accident. The company, however, said while plans for recovery were being finalised, it was working with its joint venture partner –NNPC, to manage potential supply impacts, and with Depthwize to remove the rig and in order to complete the damage assessment.