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Alaska. [edit] March 24, 1989 – The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska. December 31, 2012 – Offshore drilling rig breaks loose from tow, 18 evacuated [ 2 ] 2016–2017 Cook Inlet natural gas leak. April 14, 2017 - A BP well leaked oil & gas from the North Slope for 3 days.
Beam. 99 m (325 ft) 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. The rig, located approximately 320 km east of Dundee, Scotland, was owned by ...
Deepwater Horizon was a floating semi-submersible drilling unit —a fifth-generation, ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, column-stabilized drilling rig owned by Transocean and built in South Korea. The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Autry Stephens, the billionaire founder and chairman of Endeavor Energy Resources, has died aged 86, the company disclosed on Friday, after a prolonged battle with cancer.
David Lochridge, a former director of marine exploration for OceanGate who expressed safety concerns about the ill-fated Titan submersible, said Tuesday that company culture was centered on ...
An SUV drove through a fence and struck a valve for a natural gas pipeline Monday morning, creating a huge plume of flames that damaged houses, melted vehicles, and caused the evacuation of 100 ...
In March 1980, the Alexander L. Kielland, a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig, capsized whilst working in the Ekofisk oil field killing 123 people; six different Nimrods searched for survivors and took turns to provide rescue co-ordination, involving the control of 80 surface ships and 20 British and Norwegian helicopters.
The 2010 Copiapó mining accident, also known then as the " Chilean mining accident ", began on 5 August 2010, with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine, located in the Atacama Desert 45 kilometers (28 mi) north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in northern Chile. Thirty-three men were trapped 700 meters (2,300 ft) underground and 5 ...