Real Incidents & Lessons Learned
Real Incidents & Lessons Learned
Major industry incidents as documented in official investigation reports: what happened, which barriers failed, and what we can learn from them. We cover strictly what is stated in those reports, providing a link to each official source.
Case Studies
April 20, 2010 · Drilling · Well Control
Macondo well blowout and Deepwater Horizon rig explosion
Loss of well control during temporary abandonment, followed by an explosion, fire, rig sinking, and a massive oil spill.
Article · Video coming soonMarch 23, 2005 · Refining · Process SafetyBP Texas City refinery explosion
Overfilling of a splitter tower during unit startup, leading to flammable liquid discharge from an atmospheric blowdown stack, followed by an explosion and fire.
Article · Video coming soonJuly 6, 1988 · North Sea, UK
The Piper Alpha platform disaster
Coming soon
Official source: The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster (Cullen Report) — HSE
Incident videos from the channel
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Book library →Full official reports are available for free in the book library under the HSE section.