At least 15 drilling rigs can be left without work next year. Then layoff 13,500 jobs.
Seven rigs are heading in circulation or have left the Norwegian continental shelf, and within one year, eight others standing without contact. Another six rigs are at risk in 2016, says the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad.
Last week came the news that John Fredriksen company North Atlantic Drilling (NAD) layoff more than 250 employees. Earlier this month, 100 cooks and cleaners in the catering company ESS revieved the message that they no longer have a job.
Since last summer, Statoil said the agreement with one drilling rig and sent two rigs to shore. Several rigs have left the Norwegian continental shelf.
- There are not signed rig contracts on Norwegian continental shelf for two years. In addition to the rigs all the way out of the Norwegian continental shelf, there are eight floating rigs will contract in the next 12 months. If many of these do not get new assignments, it dramatically. It will mean even more layoffs in the industry, says Jørgen Arnesen, President of COSL Drilling Europe, headquartered in Stavanger.
When a rig job disappears, follow averaging five other jobs at suppliers in the undertow, according to the math club leader Arild Jenssen Safe in North Atlantic Drilling. Thus, around 13,500 jobs be in jeopardy if the 15 drilling rigs are without a contract for one year.