Forty-five years after the Alexander L Kielland oil rig capsized in the North Sea, Norway’s parliament has voted to set up a compensation scheme for relatives of the 123 men who died in the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since the second world war.
“This is a historic day, the end of more than four decades of fighting for justice,” said Mímir Kristjánsson
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I noticed this on NRK News a few days ago.
It did take a long time for the Norwegian Government to compensate the survivors and the bereaved for their loss.
Of course they have received the normal support available in the welfare system, but nothing special because of their suffering specially from this accident before now.
Something good that came out of this accident and the Bravo blowout (also at Ekofisk) in 1977:
You may say that these two accidents got the Norwegians to realise that it wasn’t rocket scientists that was running the show out there in the North Sea.
It resulted in a lot of changes to the rules and practises in the Norwegian Oil & Gas industry and beyond:
Here is a report about the Alexander Kielland accident: