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

Dailypaul ^ | 5.2.2010 | n/a

[wolfcreek]

A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s largest offshore drilling contractor Transocean that was built and financed by South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., that has caused great loss of life, untold billions in economic damage to the South Korean economy, and an environmental catastrophe to the United States.

[Paladin2]

"How did a non-nuclear sub from NK make it all the way here without being detected by our super satellites"

They're small subs. Might fit in a container on a NK ship out of Cuber.

[Star Traveler]

Some more FReeper threads and posts ... :-)

Did North Korea Sabotage Gulf Oil Rig, and Did Obama Cover It Up?

Did North Korea Attack Gulf Oil Rig?

Was the Gulf Oil Rig Explosion a Deliberate Attack on America?

Gulf oil spill: The Halliburton connection

[editor-surveyor]

“This theory is hogwash in my opinion.. A stretch beyond reason.. The fire started well above the water line, I believe.. High up on the rig. This was a “bomb plant” in my opinion. Someone got BIG BUCKS from the “Al Gore crowd” to do it.”

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Who dunit, I don’t know, but sabotage is clearly the cause. - But I can’t buy the North Korean torpedo.
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[kingu]

Hoax.

This was a pretty mundane event. It's called a ‘blow out’, and while much less common than before, it happens with relative regularity everywhere in the world.

The pressure of the underground resource exceeds the combined pressure of the drilled column of water, and it sends a jet of very flammable light hydrocarbons in a pressurized column to the surface. The platform would have been covered in flammable mixtures in seconds, as well as equipment that is failing from the high pressures, and all it would take would be an open flame or a spark to ignite the hydrocarbons.

Meanwhile, at the sea floor, the final caissons at the well head hadn't been put in place - they do that when they cap the well head and set it up for production. The temporary materials down there couldn't handle the pressures and were torn from their mountings, allowing the free flow of high pressure underground hydrocarbons to eject from the well head.

Had this been a torpedo hit, one of the semi-submerged caissons would have been destroyed, and the platform would have been at a catastrophic angle and likely submerged prior to the arrival of fire boats. As you can see from this photo, the flames are atop the platform, rather dramatic, and below you can still see the semi-submerged caissons are still supporting the platform. So yeah, hoax. But it'd be an awesome beginning to a spy thriller book.

[airborne]

If I remember correctly, this rig went operational in 2009, under the Obama Regime.

[editor-surveyor]

“Well, did we order a blackout over North Korea?”

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The US news media always black out anything not beneficial to the Obummer agenda.
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[SkyDancer]

Sounds reasonable ....

[GAB-1955]

“Any theories as to why the Soviets are pushing this hilarious rumor?”

Anything to upset the applecart.

[rodguy911]

Not only that purportedly the sub was a suicide mission and sunk itself on top of the wreckage. All this should be easily verifiable or not.

[JDW11235]

You got me there. :)

[Cringing Negativism Network]

How hard is it to believe, that Cuba would allow a marxist comrade nation to launch one of their many mini-subs from Cuba for such a mission? Pyongyang even allegedly has (as reported here on FR last week if memory serves) so-called “human torpedos” to deploy from mini-subs.

NK is increasingly relying, the FR linked article claimed, on terrorism to accomplish its goals, as the SK forces become more formidable an opponent.

Think about the logistics.

NK would not have to sail the sub under power. An “arms” shipment to Iran. Iran bundles the mini-sub onto a container ship to Venezuela - which gets it to Cuba. What, 500 miles from the oil drilling rig which exploded?

Or perhaps they wouldn’t even need a mini-sub.

Perhaps even a rubber dinghy close enough, to send it swimmers.

The well disaster is so close to a “worst case” scenario in so many ways, it really does make one wonder whether it was a deliberate attack.

NK might not be the most likely culprit.

But it sure seems fishy. Imho.

[Freedom56v2]

Sub launched from Havana

[TXnMA]

"Someone had this theory the other day, so is this true or false?"

Totally wacko. The blowout/fire was atop the platform. The (2-hulled) platform didn't show any signs of listing or sinking until the fireboats pumped tons of water into it. The platform took at least 36 hours to sink.

By contrast, the NK torpedo blew the Cheonan into three pieces: bow, stern, and upper stack section, The stern and stack sections sank very quickly, but the bow stayed afloat for quite a while -- long enough for most of the crew to escape.

See this reconstruction of the damaged sections of Cheonan superimposed on a silhouette of the Pohang corvette class...

A torpedo anywhere near that size would have sunk the platform very quickly...

[rodguy911]

Thanks for that. I saw a similar response a few days ago by an oil employee so I am inclined to go with this.makes sense.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

The one interview from an employee that was on the rig mentioned a gas pocket working its way out of the unpluggled well and igniting. It would not be such a disaster if the Blow Out Preventer worked - that could be a defect or as someone else put it, a piece of equipment in the way preventing closure. The eleven guys that could shed light on it are beyond questioning.

Yeah, I had another FReeper tell me that he heard an expert in offshore drilling engineering and technology speak on this ...

Mark Levin had a caller yesterday who's an expert in offshore drilling engineering and technology. According to the caller, the cause of the blow-out was most likely natural. Freak accident.
-- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2504760/posts?page=52#52

[fatima]

Never read anything written by Sorcha Faal.

[MindBender26]

Actually, it’s probably not the Sovs but some idiot with a website.

[freeangel]

“All this should be easily verifiable or not”

Verifiable, yes-—transparent, not so much.

[Eagles6]

It’s a rogue site or something. Got infected with a virus when I went there.

[rlmorel]

I am not saying it is baloney. I am just saying I don’t think it was a nuclear device.

I am just thinking logically. Why do that, when it would be completely evident after the fact that is what it was, when a simple conventional torpedo would be far more inconspicuous but get the job done.

Do I think the KorComs could have done it? Absolutely. There is no doubt they torpedoed that South Korean warship. (no doubt to ME, that is)

But I am saying I don’t believe it was a nuclear device. That comes across as silly.