Piper Alpha was an oil production platform in the North Sea approximately 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland, that was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited. It began production in 1976, initially as an oil-only platform but later converted to add gas production. An explosion An oil worker who survived the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion has claimed that the oil rig's safety equipment was leaking several weeks before it exploded, triggering the huge spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Of the many hazards, oil rig explosions could be the most serious. If an explosion happens, it can seriously injure or kill many workers. Large explosions and fires are particularly terrifying because if one happens, it could virtually destroy much of the rig and harm a great many people as well as leaking millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The Coast Guard discovered Saturday that oil is leaking from the damaged well that fed a massive rig that exploded this week off Louisiana's coast, while bad weather halted efforts to clean up the An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per day were leaking from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in late April, following an explosion at an offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010. The Piper Alpha explosion off Aberdeen in July 1988, was the world's worst off-shore oil disaster, killing 167 Leak could take six months to stem due to pressure below North Sea rig Flare burning
1 Jun 2019 The Piper Alpha disaster is the worst offshore oil rig accident ever. BP Deepwater Horizon explosion on 20 April 2010 is the biggest oil spill in
12 Feb 2020 On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 people and releasing 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of An oil rig in the North Sea is currently spewing huge amounts of gas into the air, evacuated, because of, well, the giant and spreading explosive gas cloud. A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American 4 Sep 2014 Judge: Gross Negligence Caused Deadly BP Explosion, Oil Spill an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2 Sep 2010 Oil rig explosion reports are so far unclear about whether a Mariner Energy facility south of Vermillion Bay has caused an oil leak. The rig is in 7 May 2010 Crews from the Guard, BP and local fishermen have been hard at work in the Gulf of Mexico since the oil rig exploded and sank in April.
7 May 2010 Crews from the Guard, BP and local fishermen have been hard at work in the Gulf of Mexico since the oil rig exploded and sank in April.
An oil rig in the North Sea is currently spewing huge amounts of gas into the air, evacuated, because of, well, the giant and spreading explosive gas cloud. A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American
8 May 2010 BP is trying to funnel the leaking oil to the surface. The deadly blast on board an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by an exploding
Of the many hazards, oil rig explosions could be the most serious. If an explosion happens, it can seriously injure or kill many workers. Large explosions and fires are particularly terrifying because if one happens, it could virtually destroy much of the rig and harm a great many people as well as leaking millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The Coast Guard discovered Saturday that oil is leaking from the damaged well that fed a massive rig that exploded this week off Louisiana's coast, while bad weather halted efforts to clean up the An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per day were leaking from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in late April, following an explosion at an offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010. The Piper Alpha explosion off Aberdeen in July 1988, was the world's worst off-shore oil disaster, killing 167 Leak could take six months to stem due to pressure below North Sea rig Flare burning Oil worker is missing several more are injured after an oil rig explosion so that explosion on board that rig located right there in Lake Pontchartrain just north of New Orleans a blast so powerful. It was felt miles away in the lakeside suburb of Kenner. The fireball lighting up the nighttime sky.
This caused the leak and fire at the surface to cease within approximately one minute of the explosion, and proved
The explosion. The Deepwater Horizon rig, owned and operated by offshore-oil-drilling company Transocean and leased by oil company BP, was situated in the Macondo oil prospect in the Mississippi Canyon, a valley in the continental shelf. The oil well over which it was positioned was located on the seabed 4,993 feet (1,522 metres) The deadliest oil rig explosion in history occurred in 1988 on the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea, 120 miles off the coast of Scotland. A gas leak on the platform led to a massive explosion, which ultimately took the lives of 167 workers. An oil worker who survived the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion has claimed that the oil rig's safety equipment was leaking several weeks before it exploded, triggering the huge spill in the Gulf of The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion was the April 20, 2010, explosion and subsequent fire on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about 40 miles southeast off the Louisiana coast. The explosion and subsequent fire resulted in the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and the deaths of 11 workers; 17 others were injured. The same blowout that caused the explosion a The rig was not producing oil on Friday morning when the explosion occurred. Black Hawk Energy, which owns the platform, said one of 22 contractors on board mistakenly grabbed a blow torch instead