Stories From 27 Mar. The semi-submersible mobile oil drilling could operate 1,500ft underwater, drilling up to 25,000ft below the seabed. Norfolk Eastern Daily Press has managed to obtain a statement from a Perenco spokesperson, who confirmed the fatal incident happened on Tuesday on the Perenco 23A gas platform located north east of Bacton, UK. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. Published. 2023 BBC. Electrician Graeme Burns, 47, died while carrying out maintenance work with a colleague on Brent Bravo on New Year's Day. He was recovered from the sea by a support vessel. Report into the 1988 disaster made over 100 recommendations about how safety should be improved in North Sea, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 167 out of 228 workers either on the rig or one of the safety vessels patrolling it died during the Piper Alpha disaster. Real fears for future of Lanarkshire youth organisation after council funding cut, Volunteers were left devastated after receiving confirmation from the education committee, Couple renovating home find hidden 1971 note from previous owner who paid only 3k for house. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Petrobras eventually drilled two relief wells to control the blowout, before declaring the platform a total loss. According to the report, the company had inadequate safety measures in place at the time, though Occidental never faced criminal charges. An offshore worker died when a lifeboat he was doing maintenance checks on fell from a platform into the North Sea. A company spokesman said: Taqa regrets to confirm there has been a fatality on the Harding platform.A Taqa employee fell overboard during maintenance activity. Jump to. . Sunshine On My Shoulders was John Denvers attempt to write a sad song, which read more, In territorial Kansas first election, some 5,000 so-called Border Ruffians invade the territory from western Missouri and force the election of a pro-slavery legislature. He had been employed on Marathon Oils Brae Alpha platform, about 155 miles north-east of Aberdeen, a spokesman for the US firm confirmed today. An extensive search operation followed, though Chinese, US, and Vietnamese rescuers found no survivors. Nearby rigs reported unusually large waves. The man was part of a team carrying out routine maintenance on the platform when he fell off it. Log In. Next of kin have been informed and we are working with Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive., A spokesman for Archer said: At this time our thoughts and sympathies are with his family and colleagues.. All 84 workers aboard the Ocean Ranger died. YMCA in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, has been hit with brutal funding cuts of around 100,000 per year. Most of the 123 victims drowned. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Despite the peril, it was the evacuation that caused the deaths of 42 people. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by a drifter named John Hinckley Jr. An investigation has been launched into the cause of the accident which happened shortly after 2:15am today (Thurs)Taqa said the Harding had more than 100 people on board, and all other personnel had been accounted for and were safe. The rig caught fire after a collision with the multipurpose support vessel Samudra Suraksha. George Bartlett, 62, from Shotts in Lanarkshire, died after the. Norfolk Eastern Daily Press has managed to obtain a statement from a Perenco spokesperson, who confirmed the fatal incident happened on Tuesday on the Perenco 23A gas platform located north east of Bacton, UK. SNP leadership contender Ash Regan announces 'bonkers' currency plan for independent Scotland. The crew member is understood to have died of natural causes on Thursday on Repsol Sinopec Resources UK's Tartan Alpha rig. It also paid $6.67bn through the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, a trust fund established by BP to settle claims from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 1977: Hundreds dead in Tenerife plane crash. A spokeswoman for Repsol Sinopec said: We can sadly confirm that a member of the team on our Tartan platform has died following what appears to be a medical incident. Agnes Donnelly, known better as Nancy, passed away just months after the incident left the 89-year-old with a battered and bruised face at Broomfield Court Care Home in Glasgow. The pair were in a leg when they smelled gas at 0230 GMT. Sheriff Andrew Miller ruled Mr Bartlett had failed to ensure that both the forward and aft safety pendants provided for use in relation to the lifeboat were secured to the appropriate components on the lifeboat. he 62-year-old, who has yet to be formally identified, fell from the Taqa platform Harding situated about 200 miles north-east of Aberdeen. This disaster caused the death of 72 out of 76 people on board the Bohai 2 jack-up rig when it capsized. According to available information, the worker employed aboard a Perenco-run platform died after an incident on Tuesday, December 5. 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The vessel sank upside-down in the water after approximately 30 minutes. Throughout the series, which is growing in. The controversy around it was heightened when a. or. The investigation is currently being treated as a work-related death and Police Scotland are working with partners, carrying out a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive and under the direction of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to determine the full circumstances.. 1963: Railways to be slashed by a quarter. George Bartlett, 62, from Shotts in Lanarkshire, died after the incident on the Taqa platform Harding, 200 miles north east of Aberdeen in 2014. The offshore worker was an employee of Cape. 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The vessel drilled for ARCO in the Gulf of Mexico between 1975 and 1881, operating off the coast of California for some time before its arrival in the South China Sea in January 1983. Offshore Energy Today has reached out to Perenco, UKs Health and Safety Executive, and Norfolk Police. Relatives of our colleague have been informed and all relevant authorities have been alerted.. A BP spokesman said: BP is deeply saddened to confirm that an offshore worker has died following an incident on the Unity platform. This was the last time it was seen. In 1988, explosions on the Piper Alpha oil platform in the British North Sea killed 167 people. A Police Scotland spokesman said: The incident occurred on the Unity platform and enquiries to establish the circumstances are on-going.. Water gushed into the vessel through open doors on the main deck and the barge lost electricity soon thereafter. After explorers discovered crude reserves in 1973, a joint venture started operations on the UK Continental Shelf in 1976. George Bartlett, 62, from Shotts, North Lanarkshire, fell during maintenance work on the Taqa-operated Harding platform, about 198 miles north-east of Aberdeen, on February 27. Our colleague was airlifted from the Brae Alpha platform and arrived at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at approximately 11.15 hours. "use strict";(function(){var insertion=document.getElementById("citation-access-date");var date=new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined,{month:"long",day:"numeric",year:"numeric"});insertion.parentElement.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(date),insertion)})(); FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. Lifeboats and helicopters evacuated most of the platforms workers. One of the UKs largest offshore oil platforms, Piper Alpha produced more than 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day at its peak. Email or phone: Password: Forgot account? Piper Alpha was once Britain's biggest single oil and gas producing platform, bringing more than 300,000 barrels of crude a day 10% of the country's total from below the seabed 125 miles north-east of Aberdeen. The 37-year-old was being airlifted from a platform by a Super Puma. Investigations that followed reported a failure to correctly stow deck equipment prior to towing. The night crew turned on the dangerous pump after another pump failed, resulting in the leakage of gas condensate from the two blind flanges. Children left to roam streets after Scots youth centre stripped of all funds. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Unocal also faced criticism for not having a standby support vessel ready, despite regulations. "They donned breathing equipment and began to evacuate the shaft. Scots couple turn old caravan into 'luxury hotel on wheels' for 3k by watching YouTube videos. A mayday call soon followed. 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