WILLIAMSPORT – Approximately 1,000 current and former oil and gas rig workers will have another opportunity to seek court-ordered payment for the time spent changing in and out of required personal ...
The oil & gas industry faces some of the most-demanding machine design challenges for engineers, but the lessons learned are often transferable to other industries. This is especially true with motion ...
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. said equipment on a rig under lease to BP Plc accidentally broke free during a storm and sank to the bottom off the UK coast. No one was injured and no crude leaked into ...
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The Welded Pipe That Snapped and Sunk a North Sea Oil Rig

In March 1980, the Alexander Kielland oil platform capsized in the North Sea after a support brace snapped from a cracked weld that engineers had already flagged as weak. Within 30 minutes, the ...