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] 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.
[pdf] The rotary drilling hose (API7K) is the flexible connector between the top of the standpipe and the swivel that allows for vertical travel. Its lengths are in the range of 45 ft (13.7 m) and over. We generally use rotar.
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