Sep 3, 2010 Houma, La — Yet another accident at an Oil Rig in the Gulf of Mexico! An oil rig operated by Mariner Energy Inc in shallow water suffered an explosion. About 13 workers had to jump into the sea, from where they were later rescued. No casualties have been reported. This comes as … Read more
22nd June, 2010 -Finally, acceding to requests from members of the public and their elected representatives, the US Chemical Safety Board, has agreed to investigate in depth (pun not intended), the circumstances that led to the explosion and sinking of BP’s Transocean Deepwater Horizon and consequent oil spill that has become a national disaster, worse … Read more
For an excellent e-learning course on Emergency Shutdown Systems and Safety Instrumented Systems, please click here. June 16, 2010– The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant, operated by Entergy, reportedly had a near emergency shutdown recently when a cooling water valve started leaking heavily. The leak was of the order of 1.6 gallons of radioactive water … Read more
For Instrumentation e-learning courses please visit http://www.abhisam.com. ————————————————————————————- June 16, 2010– US President Barack Obama, in a nationally televised address today said that the current BP oil spill disaster is the worst that America has ever faced. He said that tomorrow, when he would be meeting BP’s Chairman, he would ask that BP set aside … Read more
For excellent training courses on Safety Instrumented Systems, Hazardous Areas and Gas Monitors, please click here. ———————————————————————————– June 9, 2010– The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) which is an important agency in the government that investigates accidents in the chemicals, oil & gas and similar industries, is being urged to investigate the BP/ Transocean oil … Read more
