In March 1980, the Alexander Kielland oil platform capsized in the North Sea after a support brace snapped from a cracked weld that engineers had already flagged as weak. Within 30 minutes, the ...

In October 2007, a massive storm with 70-knot winds slammed into a Mexican oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The jack-up rig collided with a nearby wellhead, rupturing valves and releasing a deadly ...