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Two Rescued From Burning, Non-Producing Oil Platform In US Gulf

By On March 7, 2011

HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two men from a burning Gulf of Mexico oil platform on Sunday. The platform, owned by Houston-based Arena Energy LLC., is located about [...]

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Gulf Oil Disaster Declared “Spill of National Significance”

By On April 29, 2010

Oil skimmers work Wednesday to clean up oil released from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig before it reaches the sensitive wetlands. Chris Graythen/Getty Images; NY Times LA Times – The [...]

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Seadrill’s West Atlas Rig On Fire – Incident Photo of The Week

By On November 3, 2009

This weeks incident photos are of the fire that was burning on Seadrill’s West Atlas jackup oil rig located in the Timor Sea between Australia and Indonesia.  BBC tells us: [...]

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First Lift – World’s Largest Crane In Action

By On August 19, 2009

A few months back we brought you photos of the world’s largest crane being built, today we show you it in action. It is the world’s first fixed dual-beam gantry [...]

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gCaptain Tip Line – PEMEX Oil Rig Fire

By On November 19, 2007

gCaptain received the above photo via our gCaptain Tip Line. Here is the official news on the incident from PEMEX; MEXICO:  PEMEX confirmed that a fire occurred on the Kab [...]

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Incident Photo of the Week – Pemex Oil Rig Disaster

By On October 30, 2007

Cargo Law brings us photos of the deadliest Gulf of Mexico offshore accident in the last 43 years; last week’s Collision of the Usumacinta MODU and the Kab 101 Light-Production [...]

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Development Driller III (aka DD3) – ship model of the week

By On October 16, 2007

Maybe it’s just because we have fans aboard the DD1,2&3 but more likely just because this is an amazing model. It shows the Global SantaFe’s (soon to be Transocean?) Development [...]

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