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To: KLP who wrote (361958)4/29/2010 9:26:08 PM
From: arno  Read Replies (2) of 793964
 
Will they find the oil rig was sabotaged?

Pretty hard to find out if the platform has sunk.

and the pumps kept pumping...?

the oil is not being pumped. It is under pressure and leaking through the "tree" or more commonly known as blow out preventers (BoP's). Why they are unable to shut these..I do not know. I assume they were damaged when the platform sank. They are sitting on the ocean floor 5,000 ft. below the surface.

I seriously doubt sabotage has anything to do with it. From an earlier reading I saw where an alarm on the rig had gone off ten minutes before the explosion signaling a pressure increase. If the weight of the drilling mud in the borehole column couldn't override this pressure....then gas was venting to the surface.

One electrical spark....kaboom.

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