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...rig owners said the probable cause of the conflagration was a gas leak, which a survivor said was "screaming like a banshee" seconds before the blast Wednesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Rig Explosion Kills as Many as 166 | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

ABERDEEN, Scotland--Rescuers abandoned hope yesterday of finding more survivors of an explosion and towering fire that consumed the Piper Alpha platform and killed up to 166 people in the world's worst oil rig disaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Rig Explosion Kills as Many as 166 | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...industry may be mired in a three-year slump, but Big Oil still thinks big. Convinced that crude prices will rise again and anticipating a major new pool of natural gas, Shell Oil last week launched "Bullwinkle," a lighthearted name for the tallest ever offshore oil-drilling and -production rig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: A Rig Named Bullwinkle | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...Bullwinkle will stand 161 ft. higher than the world's tallest building, Chicago's Sears Tower, although only 262 ft. of the rig will poke above the waves. Seven tugboats spent three days towing Bullwinkle to its home, 150 miles southwest of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. When Bullwinkle reaches full production in 1991, its 50 wells will turn out 50,000 bbl. of oil a day, enough to make 2.1 million gal. of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: A Rig Named Bullwinkle | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Disgusted, Student Goodrum, 49, jumps out and watches an instructor effortlessly slide her rig back into the hole. She joins other dejected novices who have flunked the backing test. "This is grueling," she sighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Where Road Scholars Get Their Education | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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