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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 06:38 AM
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Venezuelan natural gas platform sinks, Chavez announces
Source: BBC News

A gas platform has sunk in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela, but the energy minister says it poses no risk to the environment.

President Hugo Chavez announced the incident via his account on the social networking site Twitter.

He said all 95 workers were evacuated from the Aban Pearl platform before it sank in the early hours of Thursday.

The rig's owners, Aban Offshore Ltd, said it was not clear what had happened but that the platform had been listing.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8679981.stm
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 06:44 AM
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1. Nothing to look at here. Move along
Just a little incident. Nothing to worry about.
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 09:37 PM
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13. Quite an apt moniker you have there.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 06:48 AM
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2. Quick spin this to evil. It's Chávez and no workers died!
Surely our free market system cares more about the lives of its workers and their beautiful environment.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 07:02 AM
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3. It's a socialist platform, so it's ok.
See, there's a difference when capitalists rape the environment.
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happygoluckytoyou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 08:51 AM
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4. please ignore the platform sinking behind the curtain.... shhh.... no damage.... shiny thing...
FOX NEWS HEADLINES...... PARIS HILTON GETS NEW PAIR OF SHOES
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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 09:22 AM
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5. Well, here's a thought
It will be awfully hard to hide an oil spill from the rest of the world. However, if their is no spill that would seem to indicate that Venezuela's safety precautions are better than our, and since no one died, that would re-enforce that view.

Just my two cents...
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 09:28 AM
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7. Because it's a gas well, there's a much smaller chance of enviro damage anyway.
One nice thing about natural gas is that it doesn't make big oily slicks on the ocean surface when one of the rigs pops a leak.
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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 02:39 PM
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15. Unless it catches fire
then you have a problem. :)
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 01:45 PM
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12. Hugo Chavez demolishes Fox News
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x377142
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 09:26 AM
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6. This platform just opened last week!
I guess that's what they get for outsourcing their drilling work to India ;)
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Yeahyeah Donating Member (741 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 09:32 AM
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8. They warned Chavez that it was leaning to the left,but he thought that was just fine.
(That communist dictator!)
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 10:06 AM
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10. OK, now that was funny. nt
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 01:41 PM
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11. LOL
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Merchant Marine Donating Member (650 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 02:56 AM
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14. Listing...
Probably a failed valve in the ballasting system or a slow leak in one of the void spaces.

Small list begins, slack water and fuel oil in storage tanks flood to the side of the list, list increases and progresses past the angle of flooding and the vessel is lost.

Good thing it was slow and obvious, and that they had time to evacuate the crew.
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Old Troop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 05:47 PM
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16. I wonder if they had fail-safes to cap the well head?
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protocol rv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 05:58 PM
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17. Evidently they did
All rigs install blow out preventers when drilling wells offshore. Sometimes they don't work :-)
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 06:21 PM
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18. I'm surprised he hasn't blamed the US for it yet. (nt)
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