Laid up in Port Phillip Bay due to the current pandemic, a huge drilling rig, the Ocean Onyx (operated by Diamond Offshore) is chartered to Beach Energy for a work program in the Otway Basin off Port Campbell.
The Ocean Onyx sits off-shore
The Ocean Onyx is expected to be laid up in the anchorage for three months and will be supported by rig tenders operating from a base in Geelong.
Image: Victorian Ports, Melbourne.
The huge drilling rig was transported from Singapore by the Blue Marlin, which is a semi-submersible heavy transport vehicle.
The rig from the Point Cook Coastal Park
The rig will be onshore-to-offshore drilling off the Great Ocean Road as part of Beach Energy’s $1 billion campaign to drill for gas off the Port Campbell coast after finding success drilling at Nirranda.