Deepwater Horizon Exploded

[jp1982]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-...

Edited by jp1982 on Thursday 22 April 16:33

[Blue Meanie]

Apparently everyone who was missing has been accounted for according to the comments. Hope everyone is OK! Sounds like the lessons learned from Piper Alpha may have been put to good use.

[foilist]

Or maybe not... acccording to the report there have been 69 deaths since 2001 in the GoM, which is more than in the entire North Sea in the same time...

[Blue Meanie]

foilist said:

Or maybe not... acccording to the report there have been 69 deaths since 2001 in the GoM, which is more than in the entire North Sea in the same time...

From my experience with US oil and gas chaps, they are a bit cavalier when it comes to work. I would imagine those deaths are the result of regular accident,s and not exploding rigs

[jp1982]

I know people get frustrated at times by the PTW system and the endless toolbox talks but like has been said it took the Piper Alpha to bring the changes in. When things like this happen in GoM makes me glad to be in the UK sector.

[westtra]

Blue Meanie said:

Apparently everyone who was missing has been accounted for according to the comments. Hope everyone is OK! Sounds like the lessons learned from Piper Alpha may have been put to good use.

unfortunately not, still 11 missing suspected dead.

[jp1982]

Yahoo and bbc news saying the same. My thoughts go to the families.

Edited by jp1982 on Friday 23 April 12:57

[Jimbeaux]

We are dealing with this daily from my agency. Transocean operated this for BP. The thing was floating, tethered, in 5,000 feet of water. The drill was 18,000 feet below that!