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Families of the more than 120 men killed when an oil rig capsized 45 years ago were failed by official investigations, a new study has concluded. The Alexander Kielland platform was being used as ...
In Monday’s statement, the president cited the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster — in which a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 workers and causing the largest oil spill in ...
July 23, 2018 - An oil rig caught on fire in Howard County. [203] August 21, 2018 - An oil tank battery in Southeast Atascosa County caught fire. [204] August 28, 2018 - A fire broke out at a Plains All American Pipeline crude storage tank east of Wichita Falls, Texas. [205] March 17, 2019 - An explosion & fire hit a tank farm in Deer Park ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's state energy company Pemex said on Saturday that a fire broke out at one of its platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, adding that it had activated emergency protocols ...
Petrobras 36 (P-36) was a floating semi-submersible oil platform. Prior to its sinking on 20 March 2001, it was the largest in the world. [3] It was owned by Petrobras, a semi-public Brazilian oil company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. [4] The cost of the platform was US$350 million (currently US$602 million). [5]
The platform commenced drilling in February 2010 at a water depth of approximately 5,000 feet (1,500 m). [12] At the time of the explosion the rig was drilling an exploratory well. [13] The planned well was to be drilled to 18,360 feet (5,600 m) below sea level, and was to be plugged and suspended for subsequent completion as a subsea producer ...
Families of those killed in an oil rig disaster 45 years ago have welcomed a new report that supports their claims of being denied justice. The Alexander Kielland platform was being used as an ...
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