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Special Alert: Jack Ryan Crane Failure Report (Fatality)

Posted in accidents, tagged , , , , , , on June 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Thanks to a reader, we have obtained a copy of a report on the Jack Ryan crane failure (August 2010) that killed one worker and injured three offshore Nigeria. As BOE readers know, we have been pursuing information on this accident for months.

At BOE our highest priority is drawing attention to and disseminating information on offshore accidents.  In that regard, we greatly appreciate the support we have received from readers.

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Link to Jack Ryan report.

We understand that Total is conducting an inquiry, and assume that Transocean has also investigated this accident. We hope those reports are made publicly available.

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Posted in accidents, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 14, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Now that Chile, with the help of the international community (including two companies from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania where the drilling industry began), has rescued the 33 miners, can we drill into the Australian government and rescue the Montara and Varanus Island reports?

While we are at it, can we learn more about these accidents?

Let’s learn from past accidents, so we don’t need dramatic rescues in the future.

The offshore safety record will be suspect until industry and governments have credible, internationally accepted programs and policies for ensuring that accidents are independently investigated and that investigation updates and reports are released in a timely manner.

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Macondo: Different Country, Same Questions

Posted in accidents, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t heard BP executives answer the same questions  (long string, centralizers, cement bond log, BOP failure, etc, etc) often enough during appearances before Congress, you can watch a UK House of Commons committee ask them to Tony Hayward and Mark Bly on cspan’s recording of yesterday’s hearing.  This excellent legislative teamwork is further evidence of that special relationship between the US and UK.

I do wish that both government’s would show more interest in some of the lower profile incidents that also have major international significance. Perhaps they can coax Venezuela to release information about the Aban Pearl sinking. Even though I follow Hugo Chavez’s tweets :), I’ve learned nothing of significance about that accident.

In light of yesterday’s post about negative pressure testing, I was interested in this comment by Tony Hayward at the Common’s hearing:

We clearly have taken a lot of action to clarify and provided much greater rigor around the assessment of the negative pressure test.

Can BP tell us more?

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Interesting Washington Post Article

Posted in accidents, tagged , , , on August 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »

While the author was apparently unaware of the recent crane failure and fatality on Transocean’s Jack Ryan, that and other offshore crane incidents (not only on Transocean rigs) came immediately to mind in reading this Washington Post article.  Readers should also be aware of the crane safety program of the International Regulators’ Forum.  From the  Washington Post article:

Case in point: In April, the company that owned the rig gave parts of two cranes (on the Deepwater Horizon) its worst rating, indicating that they did not work or should be removed from service.

Were the cranes removed from service pending corrective action?

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Aban Pearl and Other Pending Investigations

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Aban Pearl

According to our 15 May post,  Venezuela established a special commission to investigate the sinking of the Aban Pearl, a semi-submersible rig that sank on 13 May 2010.  In the subsequent 3 months, we have not seen any updates on that commission or the status of the investigation.

BOE will also be tracking any reports on the recent crane failure and apparent fatality on the Jack Ryan, and the Bayou St. Denis blowout.  Let us know if there are other major offshore accidents that we should be tracking. With regard to the Jack Ryan, a description of the tragic crane accident is posted in a thread on the Oil Rig Photos site (see the 3 August post).

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Upstream confirms Jack Ryan (drillship) crane incident

Posted in accidents, tagged , , , , , , , on August 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Upstream has confirmed the crane incident on the Jack Ryan during operations offshore Nigeria.

According to a summary incident report into the accident, seen by Upstream, the port aft crane boom and cab, together with the three men, went overboard during load testing.

Upstream understands that the crane boom snapped during the tests.

The Upstream report is consistent with information provided separately by Malcolm Sharples.  One worker is still missing.

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Incident offshore Nigeria

Posted in accidents, tagged , , , , , , on August 3, 2010| 3 Comments »

Upstream reports that a worker is missing from Transocean’s Jack Ryan drillship which is working in the Akpo field offshore Nigeria. Two other workers were recovered from the water.  The accident occurred on Saturday, but neither TO nor the Nigerian Petroleum Corporation are providing any details.  Hopefully, more information will be forthcoming in the near future.

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