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The Alexander Kielland incident

Memorial

Alexander Kielland

edda 2/7 C

Alexander Kielland platform

Precautions

  • Brutt Lenke
  • executed by the sculptor John Hellum.
  • unveiled in Kvernevik in Stavanger in March 1986.

The names of the diseased, are carved onto stones close to the memorial.

  • Rescue helicopter located along the coast.
  • Annual drills with testing of all safety equipment.
  • All aboard must have his own survival suit and it should be 200% survival suit coverage.
  • Safety course for everyone on board.
  • After the accident, all North Sea offshore installations tightened their command organization,
  • The 14 minutes between failure of the leg and the rig's turnover, most of the personnel on board could have escaped, if a more effective command structure had been in place.

Today only the rig manager can order abandonment.

  • The failure to deploy lifeboats led to new legislation regarding on-load release hooks for lifeboats on oil rigs.

Now all lifeboats on merchant ships to be fitted with hooks that could be released even when they were under load.

  • Semi-submersible platform
  • French Shipyard, 1976
  • 27th march, 1980, worst accident in the north-sea
  • 123 of 212 people died. 23 british.
  • Served as a 'Flotel' providing living quarters for offshore workers Edda 2/7C.

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The Alexander Kielland Platform

What happened?

Memorial

Precautions

Sources

What happened

  • capsized due to a fatigue crack in bracing D-6, which connected the D-leg to the rest of the rig.

  • D-leg broke off

  • Poor welding made sure that there was a crack in the weld on D-6 already on delivery from the shipyard.
  • The crack grew by fatigue, to full rupture.
  • Early in the evening of 27 March 1980 more than 200 men were off duty on Alexander Kielland.
  • waves were up to 12 m high.
  • The rig had just been winched away from the Edda production platform.

  • Minutes before 18:30, those on board felt a trembling.
  • the rig heeled over 30°
  • Five of the six anchor cables had broken
  • 18:54 the rig capsized.

  • 130 men were in the mess hall and the cinema
  • Four lifeboats were launched, only one managed to release. rafts were thrown from Edda
  • Seven men were taken from the sea by supply boats and seven swam to Edda.

Sources:

  • https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_L._Kielland_(plattform)
  • https://www.google.no/search?q=brutt+lenke+kvernevik+navn&espv=2&biw=1242&bih=602&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibhcKg7ZHSAhVBrSwKHXD8Cb0Q_AUICCgB#imgrc=UU8IZdMkY_fo-M:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_L._Kielland_(platform)
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