Ocean ranger drilling rig

Remembering an Accident: Ocean Ranger Oil Rig Disaster

Mobil Oil of Canada hired rig owner Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. (ODECO) to use the rig for an exploration well on the Hibernia field. The day before the disaster, a strong

The Ocean Ranger, the Mekhanik Tarasov and the Terrifying

The Ocean Ranger was a self-propelled, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig, famous for being the largest of its kind when it was launched in the year 1976. These rigs were

Recover 18 bodies from oil rig disaster

The Ocean Ranger began to list dangerously during a vicious winter storm Monday morning. It toppled over within minutes after the crew radioed it was abandoning the $50

The Ocean Ranger Disaster: A Tragic Chapter in

The Ocean Ranger was a state-of-the-art semi-submersible offshore drilling rig commissioned in 1976. Designed by Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company

TRAGICALLY INEXPERIENCED: The Ocean Ranger Oil Rig

Considered "Unsinkable", The Ocean Ranger Oil Platform capsized and sank on Monday February 15, 1982 killing all aboard. A major storm in the North Atlantic Grand Banks off St. John''s

Ocean Ranger

Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland,

The Ocean Ranger Disaster (TV Movie 2002)

The Ocean Ranger Disaster: Directed by Christopher Rowley. With Cle Newhook, Gordon Noseworthy, Owen Myers, John Whelan. This new 60-minute

The Ocean Ranger Disaster: Why Did It Happen?

Built by Japan''s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Inc. in 1976, the 30,000-ton rig was leased by Mobil for an estimated $120,000 a day from Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. of

Porthole to Failure

Semisubmersible oil rigs were still evolving in the early 1980''s, and at the time, the Ocean Ranger was considered the most advanced offshore drilling unit of its day.

Remembering an Accident: Ocean Ranger Oil Rig

Early in the morning of February 15, 1982, 84 crew members died in the Ocean Ranger disaster. They were aboard the rig when it capsized and

The Loss of the Ocean Ranger, 15 February 1982

A son and daughter of two of the men killed aboard the oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982 recount how their losses altered the course of their lives.

The "Ocean Ranger" Disaster

The "Ocean Ranger" was an oil drilling rig that sank off Newfoundland on Valentine''s Day 1982, taking 84 lives with her. William Pitcher on Flickr

Ocean Ranger: 40 years since oil and gas rig tragedy

Forty years ago on February 15 1982, the Odeco semi-submersible drilling rig Ocean Ranger was lost in heavy seas and hurricane force winds on the fabled

The Ocean Ranger Disaster: Remembering the Tragic Sinking of

The Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible drilling rig operating in Atlantic Canada. In a decade marked by rising energy demands and exploration for oil reserves in remote areas like

The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the promise of oil

The Ocean Ranger, a rig designed, owned, and operated by the New Orleans-based Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, and under contract to Mobil Oil, was the largest semi

Disasters: Wreck of the Ocean Ranger

Those were the last words heard from the Ocean Ranger. By the time the first rescue aircraft were able to reach the site of the rig, located in the potentially rich Hibernia

Tragic Ocean Ranger Disaster: A Call for Offshore Safety Reform

The Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible offshore drilling rig, designed to operate in deep water conditions, and was one of the largest of its kind in the world.

A small, damaged lifeboat carrying eight or nine crewmembers...

BOSTON -- A small, damaged lifeboat carrying eight or nine crewmembers of the ill-fated oil rig Ocean Ranger capsized as they desperately lunged for a line from a rescue

The Ocean Ranger Oil Rig Disaster: A Risk Analysis

This paper analyzes quantitatively the design of the Ocean Ranger off‐shore oil drilling rig that capsized and sank on February 15, 1982 off the coast of

Ocean Ranger Inquiry

On February 15, 1982, the semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit "Ocean Ranger" sank and was one of the worst offshore accidents in Canadian history. The Ocean Ranger was

Porthole to Failure: The Sinking of the Ocean Ranger

Rig Configuration The Ocean Ranger was constructed with a semisubmersible design that placed its drilling platform atop eight columns fixed to two parallel pontoons. When

Remembering an Accident: Ocean Ranger Oil Rig

Mobil Oil of Canada hired rig owner Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. (ODECO) to use the rig for an exploration well on the Hibernia field. The

The Ocean Odyssey GasPocket — ALQUER BCRSS

Originally to have been named Ocean Ranger II, the $110 million platform was under construction in Yokosuka, Japan, on February 15, 1982, when its

Ocean Ranger

The largest semi-submersible Offshore Drilling Rig of its day, sank in a storm in 1982 whilst two smaller nearby rigs survived with minimal damage. We dive into how not

The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the promise of oil

The Ocean Ranger, a rig designed, owned, and operated by the New Orleans-based Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, and under contract to Mobil Oil, was the

Today we remember the Ocean Ranger

February 15th marks the anniversary of the 1982 ODECO Ocean Ranger drilling rig disaster in which 84 offshore workers lost their lives. ODECO Ocean

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