Federal and state authorities are investigating the cause of the deadly explosion and fire at a natural gas drilling rig in southeastern Oklahoma on Monday. Five workers died in what appears to be one of the country’s deadliest onshore drilling accidents.
[pdf] This article lists the main components of a petroleum onshore drilling rig. Offshore drilling rigs have similar elements, but are configured with a number of different drilling systems to suit drilling in the marine environment. The equipment associated with a rig is to some extent dependent on the type of rig but. .
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[pdf] The bodies of five workers, including one Texan, were recovered Tuesday after an explosion ripped through a drilling rig in Oklahoma, triggering what appears to be the nation's deadliest oil and gas accident since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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