Forum logging me out all the time ..

[Albannach]

but seems to me the words safety and oil industry don't go together too well

Can you elaborate on that?

[spacast]

Can you elaborate on that?

Well, to start with, most of the oil is in the most unstable, corrupt, and dangerous parts of the world. Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea spring to mind. It's cowboy country....actually it's worse,these places are run by gangsters. To get anything done you have to pay - even BA staff. Oil workers are often kidnapped or shot at, or killed.

How did the BP rig explosion happen? There are supposed to be failsafe devices to cap wells, huge spring operated shut-off valves, someone must have disabled them - and this happened in US! Just think what's going on in Africa.

BP says the Deepwater Horizon did have a "dead man" switch, which should have automatically closed the valve on the seabed in the event of a loss of power or communication from the rig. BP said it can't explain why it didn't shut off the well.

My mate was on a rig in Asia. The supply ship was on it's way - they set course using the old tomtom, and went below for a snooze leaving Jim the cabin boy on the bridge.
The Asian tomtom works well - Jim was playing grand theft auto when the ship arrived at the rig. It went right under the corner, ripping off all the superstructure of the ship, and removing the corner with the firefighting equipment from the rig.
So, a wrecked ship, and a rig with no firefighting capability. Have to shut the rig down for safety reasons? Nope. Just keep your fingers crossed.

Many places insist that a proportion of workers and management are local - that means unskilled mates of those in power.

It's also common to use bolts instead of fuses.

There's plenty more.

[dyte]

Well, to start with, most of the oil is in the most unstable, corrupt, and dangerous parts of the world. Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea spring to mind. It's cowboy country....actually it's worse,these places are run by gangsters. To get anything done you have to pay - even BA staff. Oil workers are often kidnapped or shot at, or killed.

How did the BP rig explosion happen? There are supposed to be failsafe devices to cap wells, huge spring operated shut-off valves, someone must have disabled them - and this happened in US! Just think what's going on in Africa.



My mate was on a rig in Asia. The supply ship was on it's way - they set course using the old tomtom, and went below for a snooze leaving Jim the cabin boy on the bridge.
The Asian tomtom works well - Jim was playing grand theft auto when the ship arrived at the rig. It went right under the corner, ripping off all the superstructure of the ship, and removing the corner with the firefighting equipment from the rig.
So, a wrecked ship, and a rig with no firefighting capability. Have to shut the rig down for safety reasons? Nope. Just keep your fingers crossed.

Many places insist that a proportion of workers and management are local - that means unskilled mates of those in power.

It's also common to use bolts instead of fuses.

There's plenty more.

bolts are much better than fuse they last so much longer somtimes outliving the rest of the system top tip there mate