{"id":3229,"date":"2021-08-07T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aseanoffshore-decom.org\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2021-08-29T12:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T04:52:53","slug":"topsides-swing-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/2021\/08\/07\/topsides-swing-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Averted as Oil Rig Decommissioning Goes Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 5, 2021, three workers were nearly crushed by a 200-metric-ton platform when things went bad while dismantling an oil rig off the coast of Western Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The technicians were working on a decommissioned Santos oil rig when a crane removed the topsides, and it began to swing out of control, leaving the workers exposed, clinging to the steel column below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News article on Aug 6th, 2021 by Unit 202 Productions, Eric Sorensen, David Mantey<\/strong> from <em>manufacturing.net<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>    For further reading, please visit <em>manufacturing.net<\/em> &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturing.net\/video\/video\/21591208\/crisis-averted-as-oil-rig-decommissioning-goes-bad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crisis Averted as Oil Rig Decommissioning Goes Bad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 5, 2021, three workers were nearly crushed by a 200-metric-ton platform when things went bad while dismantling an oil rig off the coast of Western Australia. The technicians were working on a decommissioned Santos oil rig when a crane removed the topsides, and it began to swing out of control, leaving the workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13006,"featured_media":3232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}