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2. List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the ...

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   November 30, 1980 - An oil rig contracted by Texaco accidentally drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Company salt mine under Lake Peigneur. Because of an incorrect or misinterpreted coordinate reference system, the 14-inch (36 cm) drill bit entered the mine, starting a chain of events that turned the lake from freshwater to salt-water, with a ...

3. Rig disaster families 'failed by authorities' - AOL

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   A new report criticises the response to the deaths in 1980 of 123 North Sea oil rig workers. ... but said it was "clear" authorities and companies had a "a common interest in limiting the ...

4. List of industrial disasters - Wikipedia

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   An explosion and resulting fire on a North Sea oil production platform killed 167 men. The total insured loss was about US$3.4 billion. To date it is rated as the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms both of lives lost and impact to industry. March 24, 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill.

5. Energy accidents - Wikipedia

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   An explosion and resulting fire on a North Sea oil production platform kills 167 men. Total insured loss is about US$3.4 billion. To date it is rated as the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms both of lives lost and impact to industry. March 24, 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill.

6. BP Says "Multiple Companies" Responsible for Gulf Oil Disaster

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   A report by BP (BP) says that "multiple companies and work teams" are responsible for the Gulf oil disaster that killed 11 workers and spewed out millions of gallons of oil into the ocean. "It is ...

7. US tightens some offshore oil rig safety rules that had been ...

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   Failure of blowout preventer equipment was a major cause of the April 2010 disaster that killed 11 workers and resulted in an estimated 130 million gallons of crude oil spewing into the Gulf of ...

8. Category:Disasters in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   Category: Disasters in North Carolina. 11 languages. ... 2020 Colonial Pipeline oil spill; Tornado outbreak of March 29–31, 2022; C. 2009 ConAgra Foods plant explosion;

9. List of pipeline accidents in the United States in the 2020s

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   September 20 – A contractor's digging equipment hit & ruptured a crude oil gathering pipeline in Williams County, North Dakota, spilling about 8,400 gallons of crude oil. [30] December 7 – The Keystone Pipeline leaked about 588,000 gallons of tar sands crude into a creek, in Washington County, Kansas. This is the biggest oil spill in ...