The Kielland legacy
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2025
- A major accident is the most-feared scenario. The biggest in Norway’s oil history happened on 27 March 1980, when Alexander L Kielland capsized in the North Sea with the loss of 123 lives.
The disaster proved extremely important for safety progress on the Norwegian continental shelf in terms of regulation, supervision and allocation of responsibility between government agencies.
Forty years ago, I was in the radio room of the rig Sedco 700 when I heard the 1st mayday from the Alexandra Kielland. Amazing to see the man whose voice I heard 40 years ago in that radio room.
Hey, I was on the 700 back then, the new driller, worked with Royce Starnes
I was on the SEDCO 703,that night, I too went past the radio room and heard there had been an incident,I was on shift in the motor room so could not hang about.About a year later I was working on the Piper Alpha.
Wow. That is amazing. I'm glad you're both alive!
My father remembers this like it was yesterday, he was almost 20
I was in the radio room on the Chris Chenery being used as a Flotel about 100 miles away ….i know exactly how you feel my friend .stay safe.
The picture of that one leg floating alone is an iconic image of my time; I shall remember it until the day I die. This documentary was way overdue. Great upload.
Really important video for the bereaved non-norwegians as it is texted in english ❤❤❤
My father worked on this platform at that time, but went to hospital just two days before this tragic event due to some complications and had operate both his legs after being run over by a drunk driver in the military 3 years prior. I was born in 85, 5 years later. He also survived the Hotel Caledonien fire in Kristiansand (where I grew up) in 86 after arriving from being stationed somewhere for 6 months (not sure where). He sadly passed away 3 years ago from ALS.
i am so sorry for your loss, my grandad, who i never got to meet, died in this accident but my dads friend was due to go on this platform at the time but his friend covered his shift and died. awful accident.
To survive all that and then get als
2:15 what the subtitles did not include is the last part where he say “and it cut my colleague in two”.
This is most excellently done. Very similar to what is done here in the US at the USCSB.
I have the honour to live in Stavanger from 2014.
Tonight i was there at the "Brutte Lenker" ...the memorial for that disaster.
Winds,cold and waves..you could feel their souls.
It's worth noting that the cause of the accident was, and still is, disputed by many, and especially by the survivors. The investigation was a closed process with evidence being classified, it took 3 years to get the rig upright so a proper investigation and a search for bodies could be performed, the independent French investigation concluded differently from the Norwegian version etc.
Hi, where can i caees the french report ?
Why does it STILL take a catastrophe to happen for those that are responsible for design, production, safety and regulation to sit up and take notice of their deficiencies? I think that before the Kielland, these areas were operated by complacent paper-pushers.
Finally a documentary about A Kielland. I remember seeing that ominous sight of the upside down giant feet as a kid and thinking it just looked scary as hell, knowing there was a whole building full of corpses hanging underneath. Apparently the sights seen inside after turning it right again were pretty nasty as well. Being fascinated by the grotesque, getting to see the pictures from the inside salvage operation is actually one of my greatest wishes and has been for close to 20 years.
It is hard for me to believe that the sister semi is still working in the North Sea and that the crew are being evacuated when bad weather is forecast. Can anyone confirm this to be true? This disaster was followed by the Ocean Ranger off Newfoundland. It forced me to redouble my efforts to promote my design of the much safer Seaways MPSS ring-pontoon semi. Now the "STANDARD", "CONVENTIONAL" semi significantly improving safety in the GOM and elsewhere.
It is, a friend worked on it until last year
Henrik Ibsen was also built by CFEM Dunkirk as Pentagone 89. Sold as Safe Petrolia, accommodation barge. Then Petrolia converted back to drilling mode. Last know as Archimedes laid up Corpus Christi, USA 2011. Probably scrapped?
Stavanger Drilling. Sister rig was Henrik Ibsen. Rig was near the end of it's contract with Phillips and was soon to be a drilling rig for Shell UK.
Remember watching those extra news broadcasts when it happened - and an interview a man with a big beard (I believe he was a spokesman from either the Government or the company)... Although it may have been the next day I remember, as my bed-time was 19:00 - I was 5yo at the time.
Praise God, these men made it..
😮 "I saw my friemd Cut in half" - Thats something that will haunt you?
Is that chain at 18:38 the actual size…? Mooring cable?
No they're smaller.
Anyone know the music?
Norwegian government knows how to clean - after self.
It's so funny how the bureaucrats always talk about accidents like this as if they were preventable. It was unsinkable, just like the Ocean ranger under *normal* circumstances. There's no way to predict that a weld might break or that a wave will fill an open space because some hatch was left open etc. "Shit happens" as the saying goes and especially when you try to inhabit the most inhospitable places on planet Earth. The lifeboats are there for a reason. Thinking big accidents will never happen is as ridiculous as the Swedish "zero vision" with zero dead or injured in traffic accidents.
"A" fatigue fracture? The entire thing looks like a rust bucket.
For some reason this reminds me of piper alpha... even tho I wasn’t born when piper alpha caught fire...
Scarey as hell, was just watching survivors of the Piper Alpha...woah we can't imagine.
what an adventure.
What you don't plan for gets you
French design and build.
Followed by Norwegian misuse and maintenance practise? Some experts and witnesses, tells the faulty build and top heavy rig was torn apart by over tensioned anchor handling ...
Nobody watches videos to read subtitles. It's 2022
I read subtitles. I can't understand Norwegian dude.
Can’t see the subtitles even with me x3s on 😂
Something tells me you slurp noodles in silence during Netflix and chill
@@audungl Do you always breathe heavy through your mouth? Or just when you wrote this
@@mu0FFpu0FF The long coffee slurps you made while writing your comeback could be heard across the entire planet pal. You are the reason some scientist think aliens are sending us messages