Who's blowing up oil rigs?

[Kazak]

I don't remember this ever happening before that last one (BP), and now another one?!!

:shrug:

*tin foil*

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. East Koreans.

[SidDithers]

25. Have you ever come across the internet ramblings of Sorcha Faal?...

I won't link to the site, but they really did publish and article on May 1, titled:

"US Orders Blackout Over North Korean Torpedoing Of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig"


Just when you think the crazy can't go any deeper :hi:

Sid

[TheMuse]

2. Crab People

[MidwestTransplant]

3. The Chinese Cubans

[FSogol]

4. Ronald Reagan, the GOP, and 30 years of deregulation.

Along with a corporate culture that doesn't care about safety, the environment, etc.

Reagan's chickens are coming home to roost.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Cost Cutting Oil Companies?

:shrug:

[Mz Pip]

6. Obama's

secret Kenyan submarine navy.

[Brickbat]

7. My butt.

[msanthrope]

14. Try Beano. It works. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Really? There has been 12,087 oil rig accidents in the last 5 years. Including 514 fires and 23

blowouts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/17/AR2010071702807.html

Until now, 60 inspectors were tasked with investigating all types of incidents. Between 2006 and 2009, those included 30 worker deaths, 1,298 injuries, 514 fires and 23 blowouts that left wells out of control. They conducted 378 investigations in the gulf in roughly the same time period, with 21 considered worthy of more rigorous and extended scrutiny by a panel.

[Kazak]

13. I can remember exactly 2 to make headlines...

This one and the other one.

[onenote]

18. Guess you're too young to have heard of red adair

who was a famous oil rig fire fighter. Or to remember the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster. And if Deep Horizon hadn't occurred, chances are there wouldn't be that much media on the most recent explosion.

Your memory doesn't define reality.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. There was a fire at an oil rig in Oklahoma on Aug. 27 and one man died.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,411662,00.html

[Soylent Brice]

24. make this an OP

there was a thread earlier with freeper comments saying it's a conspiracy, no accidents in 16 yrs, yadda yadda yadda.

would be a good reminder to a lot of folks exactly what the track record really is.

[T Wolf]

9. Obama did it himself wearing scuba gear, don'tcha know. But actually, when there is no regulation o

oversight, businesses will cheat for profits.

This is just the corner-cutting come home to roost.

[get the red out]

Don't be silly!!!!

It was the President's dog, they don't call him a Portuguese Water Dog for nothing! A "furiner" at that!!!!! Probably ILLEGAL!

[Xipe Totec]

10. It's the KGB

The Kajun Gulf Bloweruppers.

I saw it in a vision; a Rush of inspiration, as it were.

[Solly Mack]

11. gremlins...they take down planes too.

[Subdivisions]

12. Obama's doing it...

At least according to the freepers he is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9063239&mesg_id=9063239

[LaurenG]

15. So how many have blown up today?

is it one or two? I saw another post that said another oil rig exploded but couldn't tell if that's the one from this morning or another besides that one.

edit - missing word

[bushisanidiot]

16. Since the rig wasn't producing, my guess would be that the owners

were trying to claim insurance money.

..as long as we're talking conspiracy theories..

[LTX]

17. You may not remember it,

but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened before:

1969 -- A blowout at Platform A offshore near Santa
Barbara, California led to a spill estimated at up to 100,000
barrels of crude oil, fouling the California coastline. The
spill led to broad opposition to offshore drilling near
California, and later helped spur the creation of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.

1979 -- The Pemex-operated Ixtoc I offshore well in the
Campeche Bay of Mexico suffered a blow out, eventually spewing
up to 3 million barrels of crude oil in the worst offshore
spill in North American history.

1980 -- Alexander Kielland, a floating platform for
off-duty workers, capsized in the North Sea, killing 123
people.

1982 -- The Ocean Ranger semi-submersible drilling rig sank
off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, while operating the
Hibernia oil field. The accident, which occurred during a huge
storm, killed 84 crew members.

1984 -- A blowout on the Enchova platform operated by
Brazilian state oil company Petrobras in the Campos Basin
caused an explosion and a fire that led to the death of dozens
of workers.

1988 -- The Piper Alpha platform exploded and sank while
drilling in the North Sea in a field operated by Occidental
Petroleum, killing 167 workers.

1989 -- U.S. drilling ship Seacrest capsized during a
typhoon in the Gulf of Thailand, killing more than 90 people.

1995 -- Thirteen people were killed and many injured in an
explosion on a Mobil oil rig off coast of Nigeria.

2001 -- The P-36 offshore production platform operated by
Brazilian state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA)(PBR.N) was
rocked by explosions killed 11 people. It sank off the coast of
Rio de Janeiro five days later, spilling some of the 10,000
barrels of fuel and crude it was storing into the Atlantic.

2005 -- A fire destroyed the Mumbai High North processing
platform off India's west coast, affecting 123,000 bpd of crude
production, or 15 percent of the country's domestic output, and
killing 12 people. The platform was owned by ONGC.

2007 -- During stormy weather, the Usumacinta rig collided
with the Kab-101 platform off the coast of Mexico, causing fuel
leaks and killing 21 workers who tried to flee in life rafts in
one of state oil firm Pemex's worst accidents.

2009 -- The West Atlas mobile drilling rig leaked oil and
gas into the East Timor Sea from the Montara oil field near
Australia, and later sank after a fire. The spill continued for
months before relief wells were drilled to plug the leak,
depositing millions of gallons of crude into an ecologically
sensitive marine ecosystem.

There have been numerous other, somewhat less catastrophic accidents as well, like the 1997 East Cameron Block 328 rig explosion.

[MineralMan]

20. Fires and explosions on oil rigs are a constant hazard.

Just because you don't remember this ever happening does not mean that it doesn't. You may not have been following oil rig news. There have been many fires and explosions. That's why they train so hard on what to do when they happen.

[KansDem]

21. The "Axis of Evel...

...Knievel"

[MineralMan]

22. Here's one from 2007 that killed 167 people. You don't remember

that one? It was big news all over the world. I remember it from the news reports at the time. I'm sure I can find many more for you, or you can do some looking for yourself.

Lots of oil rig fires and explosions are not disasters, and just make local news. They happen all the time. You know...all that gas and oil...sorta flammable stuff. Very dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOOjKXv5EoQ

[Canuckistanian]

23. Terror Babies

They're swimming across the Gulf in tiny wetsuits then bombing oil rigs before beginning life in America on welfare.

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. The reason you don't remember it is they never made an issue of it before.

There are something like a thousand fires and/or explosions on rigs every year. If it wasn't for the pumping pipe of the BP rig, it would have been just another industrial accident buried on page 6, like all the others.

[chrisa]

27. Deregulation leads to less safety precautions.

So, if you want to blame somebody, blame the Bush Administration.