MEEI APPOINTING TEAM TO INVESTIGATE

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In response, the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young says they will be appointing a team to investigate Sunday morning’s rig incident.   Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh tells us more.

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00:00The Ministry of Energy says a detailed investigation is being launched into the collapse of Wealth

00:06Services Rig 110, which left one person injured and another missing on Sunday morning.

00:14In a statement this afternoon, the ministry says a team is being appointed to conduct

00:19an investigation of the incident and to prepare and submit a comprehensive report of the findings

00:25of that investigation.

00:27The ministry also released photos of line minister Stuart Young's visit to the Trinmar

00:32Marine Base this afternoon, saying he received in-person briefings on the ongoing incident

00:39management.

00:40Minister Young, it says, also met with relatives of the missing employee, 45-year-old Pete

00:46Phillip.

00:47The statement says Young offered his prayers and words of support to the family members

00:53present at the base as they deal with this difficult situation.

00:58The statement informs that the ministry has a team on the ground monitoring the response

01:03operations alongside OSHA, Heritage Petroleum Company Limited and Wealth Services officials.

01:10Earlier on Sunday, Young said Rig 110 is a privately owned and operated asset of Wealth

01:16Services, which was being utilised within the Heritage offshore east field.

01:22Meanwhile, the missing man's wife, Candacy Phillip, who is seven months pregnant with

01:28their fifth child, remained at home on Sunday, waging for updates on the search for her husband.

01:36Sitting with the express at her Laromaine home, Mrs Phillip could barely speak, but

01:41said her husband's current offshore rotation was expected to end with him coming home on

01:47Christmas morning.

01:49Instead, since getting the news, their children have been constantly asking for him throughout

01:55the day.

01:56Given the length of time since Phillip went missing, she says she isn't sure that he will

02:01be found and if so, whether or not he is still alive.

02:06Cindy Raghuban, Tika Singh, TV6 News.

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