My old room mate called me yesterday. I had been worried about him since news of the explosion. He’s the captain of the crew boat that shuttles crew and supplies to that rig.
He told me about his boat sustaining heat hot enough to blister the paint on the boat, but was okay and now working like crazy to help in any way they tell him to.
The disturbing part about our conversation was about the captain of the oil rig itself. He went on to tell how the captain was a huge a-hole with a bad temper. The crew would tip toe around him so as to not upset him.
When things started unfolding with the disaster the captain was asleep in his stateroom and was left undisturbed because the crew thought they could handle things and not have to disturb the captain. It wasn’t until things got out of control that he was finally awakened.
We may never know but his involvement earlier may have prevented this disaster.
Bad deal all around. This is serious as a heart attack work and almost like surgery. If everyone is not working together, especially the captain, problems can happen.
Supposedly the Feds who control these leases warned about about this spot for nat gas and “water flow(?).”
Contrary to what the Kenyan Islamic marxists regime and media will spew - these people are highly trained, very smart and very capable. What they are able to do is almost incomprehensible. The pressure and cold at 5,000 feet under water is staggering. The metal used and all the other equipment has to sustain these temp changes and incredible pressure.
By an large this is American expertise and no one is better except some Brits, French, Dutch and possibly Norwegians and a few others.
The libs will demonize the oil industry 24x7x365 even more after this.
Somebody screwed up if this capitain was an SOB. You do not want to put a hot head in charge of a ship probably worth at least $250 million or more plus a crew that can get killed.
It sounds like they hit high pressure nat gas, it came up the drilling pipe plus oil & mud then ignited. I would not rule out sabotage.