Rowan, Pride jackups believed sunk in Gulf - Dallas Business Journal:

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According to Rigzone.com, Houston-based Rowan (NYSE: RDC) thinksz the Rowan-Anchorage jackup capsized and sank atits pre-storkm location in Vermillion Block 201 off the coast of All personnel were evacuated from the jackup beforde Hurricane Ike struck. Rowan’s Sabine Pass facilitt was also hit hard by the stork and is expected to be out of commissioh for theforeseeable future. Houston-based (NYSE: PDE) also reporter Tuesday morning that its jackup Pride Wyomintg likely sank duringthe storm.
Sugar Land-based NE) said two of its semisubmersible platforms the Paul Romano and the AmosRunner — drifted off their mooringws during Ike but otherwise suffered minimal (NYSE: BP) reported this morning that the drilling derricko to its Mad Dog spar rig topplecd and sank during the storm. The jackup Ocean Tower, belongint to Houston-based (NYSE: DO), also lost its drilling the companyreported Monday. Houston-based (NYSE: RIG) reporte d Monday that its Marianas semisubv had been located two miles off itsmooring Dallas-based (NYSE: ESV) has still been unable to locatee its Ensco 74 jackup, which was reported missing San Ramon, Calif.
-based (NYSE: CVX) has acknowledge d that some of its Gulf rigs were damageed but is not releasing the names yet. RDS) reported no damage to Gulf drillingt assets. The MMS reported Sunday that 28 of theapproximatelh 3,800 offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf were severelyg damaged or destroyed by Ike, baserd on flyovers of the area. On Tuesday, the MMS reported that 97.2 percenty of oil and 84.2 percent of natural gas productionb in the Gulf isshut in.