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A new report criticises the response to the deaths in 1980 of 123 North Sea oil rig workers. ... when one of its five legs snapped off in storms on 27 March 1980. ... of oil rig disaster crew want ...
Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig that, on 27 March 1980, capsized in the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea, killing 123 people.The capsize was the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since the Second World War.
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 ...
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. ... (322km) off the Norwegian coast on 27 March 1980 ...
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 vessel was built at the ...
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 ...
March 8 – Target date for the completion of the well which had been budgeted to cost $96 million. [11] March 17 – BP Chief Tony Hayward sells one third of his BP stock (223,288 shares). [16] Closing BP price on March 17 on the New York Stock Exchange is 58.15. March – An accident damages a gasket on the blowout preventer on the rig. [17]
The 2004 Taylor Energy oil spill is an ongoing spill located in the Gulf of Mexico, around 11 miles (18 km) off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the result of the destruction of a Taylor Energy oil platform during Hurricane Ivan in 2004. It is the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. [5]