Sentences with phrase «drilling rig accident»

If you or a loved one have been injured or fatally wounded from an offshore drilling rig accident, and you believe negligence played a role, it is important that you contact a qualified oil rig accident attorney as soon as possible to discuss your legal right to fair compensation.

Eversheds Sutherland has advised and defended clients facing numerous challenges caused by drilling rig accidents, transportation disasters, natural disasters such as hurricanes, and board room crises.

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Using the world's most authoritative database of oil rig accidents, a Norwegian company, Det Norske Veritas, focused on some 15,000 wells drilled off North America and in the North Sea from 1980 to 2006.

The group contends that using wind turbines to make electricity instead of drilling rigs to produce hydrocarbons would not only cut the chance of accidents like the Deepwater Horizon spill in the gulf but would also reduce the use of coal on land, the group said.

Following the April 20 explosion off the coast of Louisiana that killed several oil rig workers, families of the deceased and some of the workers who survived the accident have filed wrongful death or personal injury lawsuits against companies involved in the offshore drilling operation.