[TheRealVille]

Not sure what you're trying to say with this. This oil platform was not in production when the explosion and fire occured. Work to upgrade the platform was going on, not oil production activity. Regulations specify the use of a 'cold cutting device' such as an air saw to cut a pipe used to move flammable materials, but an acetylene torch was used anyway. A contractor was engaged in cutting a pipe on the rig and ignited fumes in the pipe which then ignited fuel tanks on the rig. It is not known if any of that fuel was spilled into the Gulf, but there was likely no oil because the rig is sound and no production piping was damaged. The fire didn't last very long BTW.

Is everything I ever say something for you to try to read something into it? It is now being reported that they were not drilling, and only spilled 28 gallons, only creating a 1/2 mile "sheen" of oil. That was not being reported when I posted, and I was merely voicing hopes that it wasn't like the last one. I work pipe, I know procedures, btw. Probably tons more than you know about pipe, being a carpenter.


I guess I should edit since you added another sentence at the end. If I didn't say I thought oil production was evil, don't presume I think it.