[Fawn]

Since I started working in oil and gas in 2006, I can think of at least three rig explosions before the Horizon. Y’all just didn’t hear about them because no one was hurt and the damage was contained quickly

Is that really true??

[sheikdetailfeather]

Per Fox, the Coast Guard says a mile long oil slick can be seen.

[Xenalyte]

Yes, it is, which is why I posted it.

[TheThirdRuffian]

“Is that really true??”

Yes. I was standing about 10 feet from a platform near Ft. Stockton, TX when we got a kick that picked the rig up and threw it in the air. The entire basement (where the BOP was) was a crater.

I ran and ran.

pipe and crap came flying out of the hole like spagetti, landing all around me.

No fire, and we came in with mud trucks and killed the thing.

In the ocean? We’d have all been dead.