Petrobras says one dead, two injured from Brazil rig accident
12/29/2011 12:00:00 AM
By DIANA KINCH
Brazilian state-controlled oil and gas producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, said a worker died and two were slightly injured in an accident on the company's PUB-03 oil rig in offshore waters in Rio Grande do Norte state, northeast Brazil on the night of Dec. 26.
The workers fell onto the rig's deck while they were boarding the rig from a boat that had brought them to the site, Petrobras said in a statement.
Petrobras said it has set up a technical committee to investigate the causes of the accident, which has been officially communicated to the civil police and the National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, Brazil's oil industry regulator.
Dow Jones Newswires
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