With structural damage seemingly eliminated as a cause of the event the smart money mid-week among outside observers was on ballasting problems having been the cause of Thurder Horse's problems.

The U.S. Coast Guard has stepped into the fray on Bradwood Landing's already complicated problem of how to prevent juvenile fish from being sucked up into liquefied natural gas delivery tankers along ...

Prosafe's semi-submersible accommodation rig Safe Lancia almost came to grief while working for Mexican state-run giant Pemex in the Bay of Campeche after developing problems with its ballast tank.