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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 ...
In the North Sea — between the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark — thousands of flies swarmed an oil rig. Engineer Craig Hannah noticed... Why thousands of flies are on an oil rig in the middle of ...
Five men died instantly when a catastrophic decompression accident occurred on the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea, ...
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The fatal incident took place on a semi-submersible oil drilling rig where a team of six had been ...
Irish Mirror on MSN
Five men 'boil alive from inside out' in one of 'most gruesome deaths of all time'
In 1983, the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea saw a catastrophic decompression chamber failure that killed five men ...
The UK government has revised its position on new oil and gas production in the North Sea, now set to greenlight new output from existing fields and fields in close proximity to them. The government ...
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The catastrophic incident took the lives of 5 men in horrifying ways and gave life-threatening ...
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