Whether your offshore injuries are the result
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of an oil rig explosion and to find out if you are owed financial compensation, talk to Houston injury attorney Neal Davis.
Not exact matches
Black Elk struggled financially after a November 2012
explosion on a Gulf
of Mexico
rig killed three workers and caused an
oil spill.
This crackdown is partly due to a string
of recent, highly - publicized disasters including the West Virginia coal mine
explosion, an
oil rig south
of Louisiana that blew up, and a fire at a Washington State
oil refinery.
Incidents involving death or safety, like Toyota's TM, -0.02 % faulty air bag recall or the 2010
explosion of a BP BP, -0.03 %
oil rig and
oil spill in U.S. waters, were more catastrophic in terms
of consumer fallout.
The Coast Guard plans to burn off much
of the growing
oil slick in the Gulf
of Mexico caused by last week's
oil rig explosion.
A worker on the Deepwater Horizon
oil rig is claiming he told BP about a faulty piece
of safety equipment weeks before the
rig explosion that has led to the largest
oil spill in U.S. history.
Here's a fascinating use
of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the
rig explosion and
oil spill in the Gulf
of Mexico.
The blunt - spoken civil engineer has spent more than a half - century investigating high - profile engineering failures, from the space shuttle Columbia's horrific end to the
explosion of the Deepwater Horizon
oil - drilling
rig in the Gulf.
The
oil spill began on 20 April when an uncontrolled release
of oil and gas from an underwater well caused an
explosion that engulfed the Deepwater Horizon
rig, killing 11 crewmen on board.
On April 20, 2010, an
explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf
of Mexico sank the
oil rig and created a leak that has spewed millions
of gallons into the water.
The National Academy
of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council announced yesterday that they are assembling an expert committee
of academic and industry engineers to take a technical look into the causes
of the Deepwater Horizon
rig explosion and
oil spill.
This devastating
explosion of an
oil rig spewed 210 million gallons
of petroleum into the Gulf
of Mexico.
The
explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon
rig on April 20, 2010, marked the beginning
of the worst
oil disaster in American history.
Whether that be the 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon
oil rig explosion, the more than 70 cleaners sickened by the aftermath, or the thousands
of Nigerians killed directly or indirectly by our unquenchable thirst for petroleum.
As Professor
of Marine Sciences at the University
of Georgia, she is studying the impact
of the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon
oil rig explosion of 2010.
However, it's not clear whether the respiratory problems reported by the workers in the study are likely to crop up in the 50,000 people who have helped clean up the spill in the Gulf
of Mexico caused by the
explosion of the Deepwater Horizon
oil rig.
Tim Burton's latest fantastical oddity, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, earned a hefty $ 28.5 m at the US box office in its first weekend on release, but Peter Berg's acclaimed disaster movie Deepwater Horizon, about the 2010
oil rig explosion in the Gulf
of Mexico, failed to attract an audience.
The
explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon
rig that caused one
of the worst
oil spills in history is set for a Hollywood adaptation
«Deepwater Horizon» ends with a list
of 11 people who died aboard the
oil rig explosion in the Gulf
of Mexico on April 20, 2010, but it spends nearly two hours beforehand focused on one survivor.
Bringing all
of his filmmaking guns to bear to depict the corporate negligence that caused an offshore
rig's
explosion, creating the the worst
oil spill in American history.
In the wake
of Benchley's novel, we quickly got such memorable chum as Megalodon (
oil rig explosion unleashes giant shark), Carcharodan (prehistoric shark freed when iceberg melts), Extinct (killer shark preys on boys in Mississippi River) and Meg (really big pregnant shark bubbles up from Marianas Trench and eats dumb tourists.)
Initial findings have been released by the panel convened by the National Academy
of Engineering to assess decisions, or the lack
of them, that led to the deadly
oil rig explosion and gulf gusher.
The numerous technical and operational breakdowns that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon
oil rig explosion and spill from the Macondo well in the Gulf
of Mexico suggest the lack
of a suitable approach for managing the inherent risks, uncertainties, and dangers associated with deepwater drilling operations and a failure to learn from previous «near misses.»
The deep - sea exploitation
of oil and gas has been going on for a few decades now, and we've seen what can happen when things go wrong a few years ago in the Gulf
of Mexico with the massive
oil spill that took place after the
explosion of the Deepwater Horizon
oil rig...
a great irony I have observed while working at sea since 1983 in the global offshore
oil & gas industry is the
explosion of marine life that occurs in and around offshore drilling
rigs.
In the months since BP's catastrophic deep - water
oil rig explosion, the international debate over energy, ever inclined to drift on the winds
of current events, has been captured by the fiasco in the Gulf
of Mexico and the environmental destruction caused by the errors -LSB-...]
America watched helplessly as millions
of barrels
of oil gushed into the Gulf
of Mexico for months, costing millions
of dollars in environmental and health damages, and taking the lives
of 11 workers who died in the
oil rig explosion.
It would prevent further deepwater drilling in the Gulf
of Mexico until officials determine what went wrong in the April 20
explosion and fire at an
oil rig that led to
oil gushing into the ocean 5,000 feet below the surface.
Since the Deepwater Horizon incident unleashed 4.9 million barrels
of oil the Gulf
of Mexico suffered another
rig explosion and fire at the Vermilion Block 380 A Platform on 2 September 2010.
Twenty - six days after the BP
oil rig explosion in the Gulf
of Mexico and subsequent collapse, which has resulted in the leakage
of millions
of gallons
of oil into the ocean and an untold amount
of environmental damage, the latest
I want to get back to the timing
of the blowing up, the
explosion out there in the Gulf
of Mexico
of this
oil rig.
Also on Saturday, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show that «maybe» the
oil rig explosion was an act
of eco-terrorism.
Around this time one year ago, reports were trickling in that an
oil rig owned by BP in the Gulf
of Mexico had suffered a major
explosion, and that over a dozen workers were missing.
This federal law helps ensure that victims
of oil rig accidents, fires and
explosions obtain compensation for physical, emotional and financial damages resulting from their job.
If you believe negligence played part in an
oil rig accident, fire or
explosion that injured yourself or caused the death
of a loved one, you may be entitled to compensation by filing a personal injury claim.
A pioneer
of group actions for consumers in disasters
of all kinds — financial, transport and product liability — he was instrumental in many landmark cases, e.g. Equitable Life, the Herald
of Free Enterprise and Marchioness sinkings, the Kings Cross fire, Piper Alpha
oil rig explosion, Lockerbie air disaster and Benzodiazepine product liability.
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.
More recent cases include the firm's representation
of thousands
of clean - up workers and Gulf Coast residents who were physically or financially harmed by BP
Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histo
Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the
explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon
oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histo
oil rig, causing the worst
oil spill in U.S. histo
oil spill in U.S. history.
We'll start by noting that April 20 marks the third anniversary
of the Deepwater Horizon
oil rig explosion in the Gulf.