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Deepwater Horizon Rocked By Explosion
 
"The Deepwater Horizon oil rig near Louisiana was rocked by a late night explosion yesterday and due to it a fire has been also reported aboard the rig. The dynamic position semi-submersible oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, is located in the Gulf of Mexico around 50 miles off-shore of Louisiana.

As per initial reports an overwhelming majority of the 126 member crew of the Deepwater Horizon is reported to be safe while 7 members aboard the rig are injured. 11 people are still reported missing on the rig."

 

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Here are some pictures from someone who was on the scene last night, amazing.
wow those pics are scary.

i hope everyone's ok, if nobody died in that it's a miracle.
Billion dollars going up in flames, he said they are trying to save the rig.


Does anyone know what kind of flowing pressure a well like this would have?
not sure, but I saw some knowledgeable discussion on bloomberg and they were guessing over 15,000psi to achieve a blow out.

let's hope they don't need one
Jay: What would you guess was the cause? I've seen some debate as to whether they were drilling or Plugging.
They set casing but had not perf'd? casing, cement, and mud down hole, they must have some serious pressures to get back flow
The first hot stab didn't work, but they think its a ROV problem and not a BOP issue, they are sending down another ROV.
Check: To us laymen, what does ROV stand for?
The New Horizon has sunk according to reports, this thing just keeps getting worse.

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