The Alexander Kielland incident
Memorial
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.
- 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.
- 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)