Sentence examples for rig accident from inspiring English sources

"Her friend's husband got killed in that rig accident about three weeks ago.

Blowout preventers are essential for drilling on land or underwater, and the rig accident has prompted talk of improvements, like use of modular parts or better materials.

The Piper Alpha disaster which killed 167 workers on 6 July 1988 off the coast of Aberdeen is the world'sdeadliest ever oil rig accident.

HOUSTON — Three years after its disastrous oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has managed to strengthen its finances by divesting itself of less profitable operations, ramping up new oil production in the North Sea and Angola and reducing its exposure to volatile investments in Russia.

But while the company said it had already paid out $105 million in claims in the two months since the offshore rig accident that loosed the torrent of crude oil, Kenneth R. Feinberg, the newly appointed director of the fund set up to help victims in the gulf region said that he would work to make payouts faster.

In it, an Arctic landscape constructed of Lego bricks slowly floods with oil following a drilling rig accident.

Mr. Newman also acknowledged that he knew Transocean had problems assuring safety even before the Deepwater Horizon accident when four workers were killed in rig accidents in 2009.

Between 1964 and the Deepwater Horizon accident, a grand total of 1,800 barrels of oil were lost from rig accidents — an average of 45 barrels a year.

Ken Arnold, an expert who consulted with the Interior Department right after the BP spill — and a big critic of the moratorium — told me that much more oil is spilled in tanker accidents annually than from drilling rig accidents.

Using the world's most authoritative database of oil rig accidents, a Norwegian company, Det Norske Veritas, focused on some 15,000 wells drilled off North America and in the North Sea from 1980 to 2006.

And at 15 to 20 truck crashes per mile per year, the freeway is among the worst in Los Angeles County for big-rig accidents, figures show.