The list of accidents on drilling and production platforms includes serious accidents and total losses of the drilling platform and production platforms due to blowouts , explosions , fires , collisions , monster waves or other causes.
list
date
Event / platform
operator
place
dead
comment
December 27, 1965
Sea Gem
13
January 28, 1969
Platform A
Unocal
Pacific
0
Oil leak
April 22, 1977
Ekofisk Bravo
ConocoPhillips
North Sea
0
Blowout
3rd June 1979
Ixtoc I
PEMEX
Gulf of Mexico
0
Blowout
November 25, 1979
Bohai 2
Gulf of Bohai
72
Downfall when relocated.
March 27, 1980
Alexander L. Kielland
Phillips 66
North Sea
123
Semi-submersible rig, capsized
17th January 1980
Sea Quest
Sedco
Gulf of Guinea
Blowout, fire, sunk.
June 15, 1980
Bohai 3
70
November 20, 1980
Lake Peigneur
Texaco
Louisiana
0
Loss of lake water after drilling into a salt dome
February 15, 1982
Ocean ranger
ExxonMobil (MOCAN)
Northwest Atlantic
84
Sunk due to a monster wave. No survivors.
February 10, 1983
Nowruz oil field
Persian Gulf
Tank accident, Iraqi shelling
August 16, 1984
Enchova
Atlantic Ocean, off Rio de Janeiro
42
Gas explosion.
April 24, 1988
Enchova
Petrobras
Fire that burned for 31 days.
July 6, 1988
Piper Alpha
Occidental Petroleum
North Sea
167
Fire. 61 survivors.
September 7, 1988
Total
Borneo waters
4th
Explosion, sinking of the platform.
November 20, 1990
Natural gas leak in the North Sea
ExxonMobil
North Sea
0
Natural gas leak. Since then, large amounts of natural gas, which mainly consists of methane, have been leaking there in several places. The amount is estimated at 1000 liters per second.
January 21, 1991
Oil spill in the Persian Gulf in 1991
Persian Gulf
deliberately by Iraqi army ( Second Gulf War )
23rd August 1991
Sleipner A.
North Sea
A platform on the Sleipner gas field broke during the test load and sank.
March 25, 1993
Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
20th
Explosion.
January 18, 1995
Coast off Nigeria
10
Explosion.
17th August 1997
Coast off South Borneo
0
Gas set the platform on fire.
March 15, 2001
Oil rig P-36
Atlantic coast of Brazil
11
Explosions, the platform ultimately sank.
July 27, 2005
Mumbai High North
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Indian Ocean
22nd
A collision with a supply ship caused a fire.
October 23, 2007
Usumacinta and Kab 101
PEMEX
Gulf of Mexico
21st
Collision of two platforms, fire
August 21, 2009
Montara conveyor platform
PTT Public Company
Indian Ocean
fire
May 13, 2010
Aban Pearl
PDVSA
Caribbean Sea
0
decreased
April 20, 2010
Deepwater Horizon
BP
Gulf of Mexico
11
Blowout, dropped. The incident led to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill .
June 16, 2010
Geisum Oil
Red Sea, at Jebel al-Zayt
Oil leak
September 2, 2010
Vermilion Oilrig 380
Mariner Energy
Gulf of Mexico
0
explosion
December 18, 2011
Jack-up platform Kolskaya
Arktikmorneftegasraswedka
Sea of Okhotsk
53
capsized in storm
March 25, 2012
Elgin Wellhead Platform
Total
North Sea
0
Blowout, gas leak.
April 1, 2015
Abkatun Permanente
PEMEX
Gulf of Mexico
Fire.
4th December 2015
Gunashli oil field, Azerbaijan
10
Explosions
Accidents with drilling ships
date
Event / platform
operator
place
dead
comment
June 30, 1964
CP Baker
21st
October 25, 1983
Glomar Java Sea
81
Drillship
3rd November 1989
Seacrest
91
Drill ship capsized
See also
Web links
Rig Incident List - List of accidents with drillingships, jack-up rigs , land rigs , platforms, semi-lowerable platforms and ships
Individual evidence
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