1999-10-01 09:00:00+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Apparently I missed the cool Nova program that detailed this, but the A/S Norske Shell E&P Troll pages have some pictures of an oil platform similar to the one that crashed hard. Yow, that's one big piece o' hardware. More notes on the failure of the Sleipner A platform, "A later survey of the bottom of the 220m deep fjord revealed that no debris larger than 10m remained." You've gotta love any engineering failure which causes "a seismic event registering 3.0 on the Richter scale", such as the sinking of the Sleipner A offshore platform.