Posted on 09/02/2010 8:40:14 AM PDT by Pyro7480
WWL-TV in New Orleans has confirmed the Coast Guard is responding to a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dozens are reported injured.
According to the Coast Guard, it happened 80 miles south of Grand Isle.
Rescue choppers from New Orleans and Houston are responding.
The injured will be taken to hospitals in various coastal areas from Houston to the Louisiana/Mississippi border area.
Have you bothered to read any of the links yet?
Photo ops at hospital with injured worker coming up!
No but I’ve had time to scan them. From what I’ve seen the last rig to blow up in the GOM was in 1992. That’s 18 years between that incident and BP Horizon and what? 4 months between the Horizon and today? Not exactly a common occurance, which is what I said in the beginning.
LOL. And nearly 100 posts prior to your asking for information from me.
Try to keep up.
BOEMRE/MMS data on fires and explosions in the Gulf for January 2009:
West Delta 30, 1/3/09
South Timbalier 54, 1/3/09
East Cameron 272, 1/5/09
South Timbalier 308, 1/8/09
South Timbalier 23, 1/11/09
Vermilion 39, 1/11/09
South Marsh Island 281, 1/18/09
East Cameron 321, 1/21/09
East Breaks 160, 1/21/09
Vermilion 340, 1/23/09
Ship Shoal 248, 1/25/09
Green Canyon 18, 1/26/09
West Delta 95, 1/29/09
Ship Shoal 300, 1/30/09
Unless the wall maps all over my office lie, those are all a) indeed in the Gulf, and b) considerably more recent than 1992.
“What other eexplanation?????”
Eet was Moose and Squirrel!
I'm not cherry-picking. The data set is so small because it rarely happens in the GOM.
A chart shows you fires and explosions for 5years, broken down by cost of the damage, in the same exact location as the two most recent incidents. Why on earth would I go look at incidents off of Africa or the North Sea? And why go back decades? I'm fairly sure that rig safety has gotten a whole lot better over the past 100years or so.
Post 465 indicates that there were 14 fires and/or explosions in the Gulf in January 2009 alone.
Every two days strikes me as somewhat more than an isolated occurrence.
Your certitude is misplaced, given the volatile substances, the metal on metal, the ubiquitous torches, the insanely high fluid pressure, and the high number of smokers among roughnecks.
Hey,he's a guy who got into a position to try out all his cherished socialst fixes for problems, and THEY AIN'T WORKIN'. When your entire worldview crashes and burns, you tend to be a bit "angry and gaunt".
I never asked you for any information other than to back up your assertions as to what I said and when I said it. You’re a little confused.
Point of order: the “two most recent incidents” aren’t in the “same exact location,” unless you consider the Gulf one location.
Vermilion 380 is at least a couple hundred miles from Macondo.
By that logic, I take it we will now get all upset at Texas drilling because of what happens onshore in Alaska.
I refer you to post 441.
Major fires, explosions and blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico:
C.P. Parker - 1964
Main Pass Block - 1970
Keyes Marine 303 - 1990
Marine IV - 2001
Mississippi Cany. 311A - 1987
NFX Platform A - 1999
Penrod 52 - 1983
Pride 1001E - 1997
Rowan Odessa - 1994
Ship Shoal 246b - 1980
South Timbalier 26 - 1970
Sundowner 15 - 1996
Teledyne Movible 16 - 1989
Zapata Lexington - 1984
Zapata Topper III - 1975
Ocean King - 2002
Blake IV - 1992
Who’s right? You or Thackney?
just for yips, would you add me to the list please?
My bad. I see now that the list is not in chronological order. I stand corrected. 1992 was NOT the last explosion before BP Horizon.
Nope. Not unless you consider Alaska to be only several hundred miles away from Texas.
And get back to me on the blowouts vs explosions. Wanna make sure we're talking apples/apples and not apples/lutefisk
Well, if you’re still hanging on to that 18 years, thackney’s post, which includes a 2002 incident, would seem to render your alleged math irrelevant.
To the baby name list? You got it!
All explosions involve fires.
Some fires involve explosions.
Some blowouts involve both, one, or neither.
The statistics I’ve posted recently are BOEMRE numbers for “fires / explosions.” These are all available to the public, and can be found by Googling. I used “oil rig explosion fire statistics boemre” for my search; my data comes from the second link.
yep, thanks.
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