PITTSBURG CO., OKLA. — Deputies in Pittsburg County confirm they are working an explosion near Quinton on Monday morning about 9:30 a.m. Officials tell us that about 15 workers were working on an oil ...
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Oil rig explosion that reshaped offshore safety
On July 6, 1988, the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea became the site of one of the deadliest offshore disasters in history. A maintenance error triggered a gas leak that quickly ignited into ...
According to the Karnes County Sheriff's Office, one person has been injured in an oil rig explosion in Hobson, Texas. Officials say that the explosion happened around 4 p.m. The sheriff's office says ...
[UPDATED] Rescue efforts are underway after another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. CNN is reporting that 13 workers involved in the explosion of Vermilion Rig 380 80 miles south of Vermilion ...
Before rig workers aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizion drilling platform performed a procedure that BP says may have been a "fundamental mistake," there was a "skirmish" between BP and Transocean ...
NEW ORLEANS — A deep-water oil platform that burned for more than a day after a massive explosion sank into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, creating the potential for a major spill and underscored the ...
In our countdown of the year’s top food safety stories, number 3 was the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion on the area’s seafood industry: The The Gulf seafood story, which began ...
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