We owe it to all those who died or have suffered to do our best to prevent anything like the Kielland accident from happening again. Magne Ognedal, Director General, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway
Section from a brace that failed on the Alexander Kielland, Stavanger Oil Museum
Thirty years ago today, 123 workers died when the Alexander Kielland capsized in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The Kielland was a converted semisubmersible drilling rig that was functioning as a floating quarters facility in the Ekofisk field. The capsizing was triggered by a failure in one of the structural braces during a storm. 212 workers were aboard. More information on this tragedy can be found at the Stavanger Oil Museum site.
We join our friends and colleagues in Norway and throughout the world in remembering this tragedy. The best way to honor the dead is to make sure similar accidents don’t occur in the future, and that is our commitment.
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 
I was working for Phillips when this awful tragedy occurred. It still bothers me as I was involved in obtaining the Kielland many months earlier. It was a brand new rig and should have been OK, but obviously it was not. The thing that always bothered me the most was that there appeared to be nothing we could have done as the chartering company to discover the fault.
My thoughts and prayers go out again to the families of those men lost in that awful event.
Ronald, Thank you for sharing your first-hand thoughts on this tragic incident. Bud