List of accidents on drilling and production platforms

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Disaster of the Deepwater Horizon (2010)

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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  12. ↑ https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/130/130743_Examples  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of other oil rig fires.docx@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / wikileaks.org  
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