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Three Walter Oil & Gas Corporation oil rig crew members and a pilot appear to have lost their lives in a tragic helicopter crash during the last week of 2022. The helicopter was transporting the crew members to Louisiana from the Gulf of Mexico oil rig, the accident occurring about 10 miles offshore. The cause of the accident is not yet known. Weather has been ruled out as a cause, however. It is beginning to look like some type of…

Three Crew Members Onboard have Ties to Houston Walter Oil & Gas Corporation 2022 ended in tragedy when a helicopter carrying its pilot and three oil workers with ties to a Houston company crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana when lifting away from a rig platform. The crash occurred on Thursday, December 29, with the U.S. Coast Guard immediately initiating a search and rescue operation. The search was suspended Thursday night and it is unclear as…

The Seacor Power left Port Fourchon on Tuesday, heading for an oil drilling site off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. The Seacor Power is what in the oil industry is known as a “lift boat” or a “jack-up boat.” In simple terms, a jack-up boat is something akin to a mobile oil rig platform. In the case of the Seacor Power, the craft and mobile oil rig was headed to a point in the Gulf located…

Two men were killed in a T & T Marine offshore crane accident on a dock off of Pelican Island. When Galveston emergency responders reached the scene of the accident, they found there victims. Two of the men suffered fatal injuries. The third man was seriously injured. If you lost a loved one in an incident like the T & T Marine offshore crane accident, The Doan Law Firm legal team stands ready to provide you with the information and…

If you get hurt working offshore, you need to call an attorney immediately. The oil company representatives and attorneys will try to get you to sign documents releasing your rights to sue them. Often times, your injury is caused by someone else’s negligence. Most offshore injury cases fall under the Jones Act. It is a very complicated law that workers are unfamiliar with; even some attorneys are not well versed with it. The attorneys at The Doan Law Firm, P.C….