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Iranian $40 Million Platform Unit Sinks In Gulf
Arutz Sheva ^ | 30/1/13 | Rachel Hirshfeld

Posted on 01/30/2013 4:46:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5

A $40 million engineering structure belonging to Iran's South Pars gas field, which was to be used in offshore platforms, sank into the Gulf as it was being installed, media said on Wednesday, as reported by AFP.

The equipment was built by Maritime Industrial Company (SADRA), an affiliate of the industrial wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, over a 30-month period."

An investigation is under way," SADRA's managing director Mehdi Etesami told the ISNA news agency, without elaborating.

The incident occurred Monday night as the 1,850-tonne jacket developed for South Pars Phase 13 sank to a depth of 80 meters (264 feet), media reports said, adding that there were no reports of any casualties.

As a result its links to the Guards, SADRA is subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States over the Iranian regime’s nuclear program.

Along with other industrial subsidiaries of Guards engineering wing the Khatam al-Anbiya group, SADRA was awarded a $5-billion contract in 2010 to develop Phase 13 after Western energy majors withdrew over the sanctions.

Tehran considers the development of the South Pars field, which is jointly owned by Qatar, to be a strategic priority.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gasplatform; glub; gulf; iran; iranplatformsinks; irg
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To: fight_truth_decay

Right, it was the “floppy seabed”.


21 posted on 01/30/2013 5:21:39 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Eleutheria5
Israel just got done putting down the bad guys in Gaza.

Somebody blows up Fordow. Israel attacks chemical weapons depot and convoy in Syrian. Now this rig sinks.

Is there a war on or is Israel just trying to shape the battle space for now?

22 posted on 01/30/2013 5:22:19 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Acmed, did you put the drain plug in?


23 posted on 01/30/2013 5:22:26 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: Eleutheria5

Darn, I wonder how that could have happened?!


24 posted on 01/30/2013 5:26:25 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Lawyers have caused thousands of times more destruction to our nation than have guns)
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To: Eleutheria5

Darn, they really seem to be having a run of bad luck lately.


25 posted on 01/30/2013 5:29:28 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: Eleutheria5

The Gang of Unexpected strikes again!!!


26 posted on 01/30/2013 5:31:25 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Probably sharks with fricken lazer beams on their heads!


27 posted on 01/30/2013 5:35:02 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Eleutheria5

stuxnet....

maybe it’s really a secret new iranian submarine.


28 posted on 01/30/2013 5:36:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: AdmSmith; Army Air Corps

whoops


29 posted on 01/30/2013 5:52:00 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Eleutheria5
Memo to Towlheads:

DON'T buy a lotto ticket today...

30 posted on 01/30/2013 5:58:14 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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To: Eleutheria5

Sabatoge rumors aside, this may also have been the result of the design done by those considered “politically reliable” rather than technically competent.


31 posted on 01/30/2013 6:07:24 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is the operational wing of CPUSA.)
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To: Eleutheria5

It’s like there’s a little black cloud hanging over their heads.


32 posted on 01/30/2013 6:15:59 PM PST by DManA
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To: fso301

Thanks for that post! I was hoping it would appear, after I read the article, and I’m not disappointed.


33 posted on 01/30/2013 6:26:09 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: Eleutheria5

They didn’t happen to get a green loan from Obama’s Dept of Energy did they?


34 posted on 01/30/2013 6:31:59 PM PST by abishai
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Great observation! I think it plausible that the sh!t is hitting the fan and we are being fed luke warm BS like frogs in a pot that’s getting hotter.

And not just on this subject.


35 posted on 01/30/2013 6:47:57 PM PST by 23 Everest (When seconds count. The police are just 23 minutes away. 831 Bonnie)
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To: 23 Everest

Thanks. Notice the MSM isn’t really reporting the attacks and the sinking. They are really trying to discredit the Fordow story. WND is out there almost alone on that one.


36 posted on 01/30/2013 7:38:07 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Is ozero’s epa going to fine every day it is underwater?


38 posted on 01/30/2013 11:20:32 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

There’s always a war on. Leonard Cohen even said so:

“There’s a war between the ones who say that there’s a war
And the ones who say there isn’t.”

But this is just shaping space, as you say. When I hear the sounds of distant explosions coming up through the ground, as I have once or twice when they were bombarding Ber Sheva, for several days running, then I’ll know that it’s begun.


39 posted on 01/30/2013 11:20:40 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

$40 million doesn’t sound like much money.

A quick search found that BP’s HORIZON PLATFORM (with the blowout) was built in 2001 for a cost of $350 million, with an estimate of $700 million upwards to rebuild today.

Sounds like the Iranians put a 20,000 pound water well on a pontoon boat rated for 12 people.


40 posted on 01/30/2013 11:39:53 PM PST by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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