• Offshore Drilling off of Mexico causes explosion (again).
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At least four people were killed and 16 workers injured when a fire erupted early Wednesday on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico belonging to Mexico's state petroleum giant Pemex, the company said in a statement. The company said one of those who died when the fire broke out at dawn at the Abkatun Permanente platform was a contractor for the Mexican oil services company Cotemar. [img]http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/f92d857b5a9e6762eaf3ee57c108fc2fd23f0d97/c=0-0-2202-1656&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/2015/04/01/USATODAY/USATODAY/635635077611574600-AFP-539377497.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/01/pemex-oil-platform-gulf-of-mexico-fire/70773842/[/url] This is sad day.
Wrong Mexico. [editline]1st April 2015[/editline] there, I fixed it.
Any known leak or did the blowout preventer work this time?
[QUOTE=jordguitar;47441402]Any known leak or did the blowout preventer work this time?[/QUOTE] Blow out preventors are for drilling rigs. This was a production rig. They can just shut them off. BOP's are for sudden uncontrolled rises in pressure in the well (a blowout). Once they are activated, the well is sealed closed with giant hydraulic rams. Once the well has been capped and a production well placed, there is no need for one. I can't find any information on production wells having anything like a BOP. Also it should be noted that BOP's are only on the ocean floor for large deep water rigs like the Deepwater Horizon. Smaller conventional drilling platforms like this would've had them on the surface, where they could be operated by a crew member. [citation needed] Hurricane Ike destroyed 49 wells. But they were all shut off beforehand so no leaked oil. [editline]1st April 2015[/editline] So no, no oil spill that they are aware of.
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