The Troll Solution rig started tilting after a structural fault lead to the collapse of one of the rig’s legs. At least 11 people lost their lives in a collision between minibus and Tipper near Itigatti in Dharwad of Karnataka. Many oil platforms will also contain facilities to accommodate their workforce. Pemex said that several support ships were rushed to the scene to evacuate the workers, who were taken to medical facilities for checkups. According to Pemex, Mexico’s national oil company, the accident occurred aboard the Troll Solution jack-up when the rig tilted due to a fault in one of its legs. The Troll A platform is a Condeep gravity-based structure offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field off the west coast of Norway. Sherwood Park girls paralyzed in Troll Falls accident. 2020 was the year of OTT breakthroughs in India after the coronavirus-induced lockdown forced citizens to stay at home … Marine operations are developing normally and the accident did not affect the hydrocarbons production, since it is a mobile platform that offers maintenance to wells. Kate Beckinsale shared one of the cruel messages she had found in her DMs from a troll, brilliantly shutting down the hater in the process. It is the largest concrete platform ever moved offshore, and it is the highest man-made object moved by humans on the surface of the earth. “The accident on the Troll Solution platform does not affect production because it is a mobile platform dedicated to well maintenance,” Pemex said in a Tweet. Norwegian oil and gas major Equinor has completed the world’s first drone operation to Troll A offshore platform in the North Sea. It has reached the ocean floor, 303 metres below the surface of the Norwegian Sea. The two workers who died were employed by the rig provider Typhoon Offshore. Troll Solution was engaged in well maintenance. OSLO, Norway – Irregularities have come to light during an audit of Equinor Energy and its management of accident risk and barriers on the Troll A platform in the Norwegian North Sea.. Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) conducted the review between Jan. 16 and March 11, 2020. Equinor claims the development as a “world first” with the use of a drone to deliver lifeboat system parts offshore. Two workers died today in an incident that happened on a jack-up rig in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico. Figure 1 – Location of the Troll Field [1] The Sleipner platform was one of three platforms to be used to extract oil and gas from this field. Pemex said that 101 workers were evacuated. Accident investigators are probing the incident – which one union official described last night as “unprecedented”. A photo of the affected rig has been shared on Twitter, apparently leaking oil into the sea. Big players like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video already have a huge market share however, regional services are gaining momentum. They call it "the cathedral". In 2010, a blowout caused an explosion and fire on board the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which was located only 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Read more: Pemex reports latest … [12.0S, 19.3W]. The man who died had been working on Statoil’s Troll A platform. The offshore rig was positioning itself to carry out maintenance on wells linked to the Caan Alf platform in the southern Bay of Campeche when it listed, killing two workers. This is the second major accident at Ekofisk field. May 6, 2015. pic.twitter.com/hsYC0d3NnR — IM InfoMedia (@InfoMedia_mx) May 5, 2015, > Accidente en plataforma petrolera deja dos muertos. “The accident on the Troll Solution platform does not affect production because it is a mobile platform dedicated to well maintenance,” Pemex said in a Tweet. #Entérate https://t.co/78UycsTE8X pic.twitter.com/7pOdr6227q, — Univision Foros (@UnivisionForos) May 5, 2015, Se los advertimos, nos están llevando al Despeñadero. Each service offer is intended to put the company’s technology and business firmly on the […], Two offshore workers charged for allowing Gulf of Mexico oil spills, Dolphin rig kicks off Pemex gig in Mexico, Borr Drilling faces challenging financial situation amid payment delays in Mexico, Two Workers Killed in Oil Rig Accident in Gulf of Mexico. The Troll field, operated by Statoil, contains about forty percent of the total gas reserves on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) and is expected to produce for at least another seventy years [1]. Considering that Nordic Unmanned is from the Stavanger region and the record nature of Troll A, it is a suitable location for this large technological and strategically important leap is carried out to Troll A. Two workers died and ten were injured on Tuesday in an accident on board an offshore maintenance rig in the southern Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico, Mexican oil company Pemex informed. Over a 100 workers, 98 employed by Typhon Offshore, operator of the rig, and 3 by Pemex, have been evacuated from the rig. As informed, there has been no oil spill so far and the rig continues tilting, but has not sunk. This oil platform disaster also led to the largest offshore oil spill in history. To remind, on April 1, 2015, four workers died and three went missing, when an explosion hit the Abkatun Alpha production platform at the Abkatun-Pol-Chuc area, located in the Campeche basin, between the states of Campeche and Tabasco, and approximately 132 km northeast from the Port of Dos Bocas maritime terminal. Troll-height is a landmark within Arador's End in the Ettenmoors. According to Reuters, Pemex has said that the leak is not related to the production platform, but probably comes from diesel stored on the Troll jack-up rig. A Pemex support oil rig platform, jack-up Troll Solution heavily listed after one of the supporters gave up on May 5 in Bay of Campeche, Caan oil field, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico. 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