Tuesday 01/July/2025 – 10:26 PM
“Cairo 24” learned from informed sources, that Eng. Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, will go today, Tuesday, to the site of the sinking of an oil excavator in the Jabal Al -Zayt area in the north of the Red Sea.
Details of the sinking of the digger “Ed Marin 12”
The petroleum digger, named “Ed Marin 12”, was drowned on Tuesday evening in the Jabal Al -Zayt area, during a diameter process by 3 naval units to transfer it to a new work site in the Al -Ashrafi platform area.
On the digger was 30 people from the operating crew and technicians, and during the diameter process the digger was drowned.
The specialized agencies received a notification of the incident, and the Naval Tower of the Gabco Bay oil company received an immediate distress.
The accident resulted in the death of a person and his body was found, and the search and rescue work is currently continuing for a number of missing persons.
The competent authorities, in cooperation with a number of fast launches and maritime support boats of the “Gabco” company operating in the region, participate in the search for the rest of the digger crew.
