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Originally Posted by momoese
I disagree Jack. If this happened on one it can on others too. Things need to be looked at and fixed asap before we have another disaster on our hands.
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Since the BP Gulf of Mexico problems, 3 separate drilling wells collapsed. One in Northern Ocean (oil), one in Venezuela (gas, article maybe
here) and one in the Pacific (oil). In all of these cases, regulated by the same international standards, preemptive systems and people managed to close everything so that no damage of those proportions has been caused (except the platforms collapsed, nothing really happened).
What happened in Gulf of Mexico is a tragedy, but not a problem of norms or technology, apparently. It would seem that it was either deliberate "solution" (I don't know to which end, yet), or absolute and utter ignorance of any rules, in which case it doesn't really matter, what mechanism wasn't present/didn't work, if it simply wasn't present only because nobody really cared about the regulations. As we've seen in the past months, similar platform problems were dealt with (even without broader public finding out) and no damage to the enviroment has been done in those cases either.