BAKU — 2015 · Major Tragedy
The Gunashli Platform No. 10 Fire
At 5:40 pm on 4 December 2015 a fire broke out on production platform No. 10 in the Gunashli field, operated by Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR in the Caspian Sea. According to the company, a violent storm had damaged a high-pressure subsea gas pipeline. There were 63 workers on the platform. A lifeboat carrying 34 people as it tried to evacuate them struck the platform's legs in the storm and fell into the sea. Officially the bodies of 12 workers were recovered and 18 remained missing, never to be found; 33 people were rescued. The platform partly collapsed and production was halted. The president declared 6 December a day of national mourning, and the Prosecutor General's Office opened an investigation into safety violations.
- Date
- 2015
- Place
- Gunashli Field, Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Baku, AZ
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Closed
- Coordinates
- 40.1500, 51.0500 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 4 December 2015, 5:40 pmFire broke out on Gunashli platform No. 10.
- 4 December 2015A lifeboat carrying 34 people fell into the sea in the storm.
- December 2015The Prosecutor General opened a criminal investigation.
- 6 December 2015A day of national mourning was declared.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Gunashli Platform No.10 fire en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre — Report on accident at Guneshli oil field platform business-humanrights.org ↗
- Hürriyet Daily News — Azerbaijan mourns 'many deaths' after oil rig fire hurriyetdailynews.com ↗
- Wikipedia
- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
- Hürriyet Daily News
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