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Search ends for missing oil workers
 Chevron has given up the search for two missing contractors after a fire on board a rig in Nigeria.
After three days of intensive searching, Chevron said it has now called off a search and rescue effort after the fire on Monday on board the KS Endeavour rig, operated by FODE Drilling Nigeria Limited.
Another 152 workers on the shallow water rig were evacuated from the rig when the fire broke out 10 kilometres – six miles -offshore. Two people who were treated in hospital for burns have since been released, the operator said.
Chevron Nigeria is now planning to drill a relief well after the fire, and investigate the cause of the incident.
No oil spillage from the rig occurred, BBC News reported, and the BBC also cited a report from Nigeria's state oil company which indicated that a build up of gas pressure in the exploration well being drilled by the rig was responsible for the explosion and fire.
Chevron said rig is in Chevron Nigeria Limited's Funiwa field, in Oil Mining Lease 86. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, 16 January. Advertisement
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