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The 1988 North Sea oil platform tragedy saw 167 men die, the world's worst such incident.
Workers on a nearby oil platform were evacuated by the US authorities on Monday after the oil slick came dangerously close.
The official explanation was bad weather from hurricane Dolly, which might have interfered with a planned helicopter trip to an offshore oil platform.
It also re-stated on Tuesday its hope that it can settle civil and criminal claims over the Gulf of Mexico oil platform disaster.
Traditional blue-collar labor is often associated with rational control, along with modern high-reliability organizations, such as military, public safety, nuclear energy production, and oil platform operations.
In 1988, the world's worst offshore accident occurred when the Piper Alpha oil platform exploded in the British sector of the North Sea, killing 167 people.
An oil platform and the wall paintings quickly followed.
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The incident happened this morning on an oil production platform owned by Houston-based Black Elk Energy.
In effect, the personnel on the BP oil drilling platform, Deepwater Horizon, were poorly prepared for events that took place on April 20, 2010.
The Plan C drill -- an enormous oil drilling platform that dominates the rescue site -- had reached 156 meters (512 feet), Sougarret said.
The oil would be pumped out to a platform on the surface as if it were an oil field.
Two days later, the platform sank and oil started gushing into the Gulf.
And then you subtract from that the burning that has been done with the platform and the oil on the surface with the controlled burn, for example -- the application of dispersants, skimming operations and in situ.
There it hopes to find at least half a billion barrels of oil, enough to build a platform like ExxonMobil's nearby Hibernia, which can withstand a jostle from a million-ton iceberg.
Engineers there have been stripping CO2 from oil and gas pumped by an offshore platform in the Nordic Sea, and pumping it back down.
The spilled oil wasn't from an offshore platform, but it might not have been a great visual backdrop for a candidate who's trying to promote more offshore drilling.
While drilling in that depth of water was prohibitively expensive a decade ago, it's now easy for a company Triton's size to rent a drillship to find the oil and set up a floating production platform to process it.
It says the company - which operates the Prirazlomnaya platform - has an inadequate plan for dealing with any oil spill in the fragile environment.
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Elected on a platform of social justice, Mr Ahmadinejad has squandered Iran's huge oil revenues on inflationary handouts, cares little for human rights and embarrassed many of his compatriots with his undiplomatic pronouncements, among them his suggestion that Israel should not exist.
Browne was no doubt referring to last year's temporary closure of some operations at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, delays to the opening of BP's Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and problems stemming from the 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 BP employees.
Indeed, on the same day Mr Gore was denouncing oil and drug companies in Chicago, the Democratic Party in Washington was issuing its draft platform, or manifesto.
Oil giant BP is upping its stake in the North Sea by buying Total's share of a platform and two fields.
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill began in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th with a drilling rig explosion that killed eleven platform workers and injured seventeen others.
Equipped with a turntable mechanism at its bow, the floating production platform can swivel a full 360 degrees in treacherous winds while pumping more than 100, 000 barrels of oil a day.
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