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VANITY JUST ASKIN': What does it take to cause an offshore oil rig to blow up?
Vanity | 4-30-2010 | Vanity

Posted on 04/30/2010 5:11:34 AM PDT by OKSooner

So what does it take to cause an explosion on an offshore drilling rig?

How many explosions on offshore rigs have there been up 'til now?

Has anyone said anything about what caused this one to blow up?

What if I wanted to go blow up an offshore rig? How would I do it?


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Just askin'.
1 posted on 04/30/2010 5:11:35 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: OKSooner

Dynamite

The timing of this was highly coincidental. and convenient.


2 posted on 04/30/2010 5:12:46 AM PDT by Jemian (Support Bible translation in Papua. www.mmlott.org)
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To: OKSooner

Just one progressive commie with an agenda


3 posted on 04/30/2010 5:13:00 AM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Give me a hand up, not a hand out)
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To: OKSooner

Venezualen divers paid by George Soros.


4 posted on 04/30/2010 5:13:03 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: OKSooner

Some thing explosive and a spark.


5 posted on 04/30/2010 5:13:04 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: OKSooner

6 posted on 04/30/2010 5:14:39 AM PDT by listenhillary (Capitalism = billions raised from poverty, Socialism = billions reduced to starvation)
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To: OKSooner

I dunno. Ask Dick Cheney. Didn’t he blow the levee up?


7 posted on 04/30/2010 5:15:16 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, while you were sleeping the Socialists took over.)
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To: OKSooner
Numerous failsafes need to fail.
8 posted on 04/30/2010 5:16:24 AM PDT by allmost
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To: OKSooner

When drilling, they can hit a pocket of high pressure natural gas. The pressure is higher than the valves can handle so it vents back out. When you have a cloud of natural gas around the rig, even a small spark can set it off.


9 posted on 04/30/2010 5:16:57 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: OKSooner

Between this and the latest coal mine tragedies one has to wonder.
Yeah, I know, the tin foil might be too snug-but seriously, with this bunch in charge how can you not be suspicious?
It’s been a looooooong time since we’ve had any probs with our oil rigs now all of a sudden we get this and for some reason they can’t seem to get a handle on it?!


10 posted on 04/30/2010 5:19:22 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (When will you have enough, Mr. Obama?)
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To: listenhillary

Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t give it a second thought. The fact that such a rare occurrence happened right before earth day makes me wonder.


11 posted on 04/30/2010 5:19:43 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: OKSooner

Somebody threw a span, and they threw it in the hole. Industrial disease.


12 posted on 04/30/2010 5:21:20 AM PDT by 1rudeboy (pop culture reference)
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To: mnehring
Do you believe that is what happened?
13 posted on 04/30/2010 5:22:48 AM PDT by allmost
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To: OKSooner

I dunno, how many human torpedos does it take to sink a South Korean navy ship?


14 posted on 04/30/2010 5:22:51 AM PDT by silverleaf (Karl Marx was not one of the founding fathers ....)
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To: Jane Long

Cheney and Bush blew up the levies, using the same planner they used to destroy the WTC

It was Karl Rove’s weather machine that created the hurricane

sarc


15 posted on 04/30/2010 5:25:05 AM PDT by silverleaf (Karl Marx was not one of the founding fathers ....)
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To: OKSooner

The ever-inquisitive media doesn’t seem to give a damn what caused it. It’s an “environmental disaster,” it’s going to poison the western hemisphere, and that is all we need to know.


16 posted on 04/30/2010 5:25:53 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: OKSooner
Actually fairly easy; large amounts of fuel and other chemicals onboard. IF the Horizon was engulfed by a massive NG bubble as they think it was. There would be steel flying all over and one sparky and your day is ruined. I once saw a high pressure NG pipeline catch on fire while under repair. The fire was sobering.

If it was sabotage then a relatively small charge in the right place would do it. Sabotage to the BOP would of required a lot of preplanning and a team to execute. This smells like a simple case of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time with several back up systems failing all a once - likely? No. Possible? Yes.

17 posted on 04/30/2010 5:26:04 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mnehring

and that is why oil rig explosions and the complete failure of blow out containment systems have been so common .... right


18 posted on 04/30/2010 5:26:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (Karl Marx was not one of the founding fathers ....)
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To: ozark hilljilly

Hiyas. Someone was asking about the statistical probability of coal mine explosions and oil rig explosions happening in such close proximity from a time perspective. The poster mentioned there were 3 events in 1 week. He was going to look into probabilities, and he mentioned the stats would be telling.


19 posted on 04/30/2010 5:27:04 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: OKSooner

What’s even scarier (to me) is this:

Deep Rig Fires Up, Explodes, Sinks - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498776/posts
April - 25 killed in West Virginia mine blast - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2487460/posts
April - 5 die in Anacortes, Wash. refinery blast, fire - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2485880/posts
Feb- Several killed in Connecticut power plant blast - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446472/posts

Notice a trend?


20 posted on 04/30/2010 5:27:44 AM PDT by justsaynomore
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