The ownership structure behind the Alexander L. Kielland and Henrik Ibsen rigs was...
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In the summer of 1979, Jan Olav Haga had just finished high school and was looking for a...
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Torbjørn Erga worked as a porter at the Central Hospital in Rogaland. Early in the...
Lars B Takla, later CEO at Phillips Petroleum Company Norway, was a chief engineer with...
”Mayday, Mayday, Alexander Kie...” Baste Fanebust, shipping coordinator at the Ekofisk...
British Bill Graham worked on the Edda platform and lived on Kielland. Listen to an audio...
My name is Tony Sylvester. One of the platforms that I was working on was in the Ekofisks,...
Five diving vessels were involved in the cleanup.
The head emerging from the foaming waves was white as chalk. By the time it disappeared...
At the memorial in Førresfjorden Per Priest said: There is not 123, but one, and one, and...
The Henrik Ibsen was towed out to Ekofisk on 18 April 1976. This Pentagone-type unit, with...
The towing of the capsized Kielland rig ashore was a challenging operation that involved...
At 8:10 on Monday morning, April 21st, 1980, the M/S Åmøyfjord departed from Kalhammeren...
The divers complained that drilling mud was being released while the search was ongoing.
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How was the health and safety of the relatives cared for after the accident?
After the fact, questions about the cracks and their timeline has been raised several...
Norwegian Official Reports 1981:11
The commission of inquiry into the Alexander L Kielland accident submitted its findings...
Norwegian National Broadcaster, NRK, covers the situation of those who were left behind a...
Watch the debate on whether to scuttle or turn the rig from the Norwegian National...
New information regarding the Kielland case surfaced in 1981.
Only a short while after the Alexander L. Kielland accident, March 27th, 1980, discussions...
Browse Platform Manager Torstein Sæd's private diary regarding the events on Alexander L....
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The first attempt at righting the capsized rig Alexander L. Kielland had failed. In 1983...
The accident was investigated by French experts in connection with the legal proceedings...
Were there signs of the platform manager being afraid of an accident?
A moderate gale was blowing from the north-west, with rain clouds overhead, when Broken...
Sæd is said to have wanted to inspect the wet braces on the Kielland in august-september...
In 2019 the Norwegian Parliament tasked the Office of the Auditor General of Norway to...
Watch films and work with tasks related to Kielland.
In collaboration with the Kielland Network, two trips to the United Kingdom were...
A box full of mysterious, numbered pieces of metal. Why did someone turn this over to the...
Approximately one hundred people turned out at Sola Strand Hotel, as Sola Mayor Tom...
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At the Norwegian Petroleum Museum
The Kielland seminar was held at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum on the 10th of October...
On October 10th 2023, the documentation project at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum...
