MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Loss of power on “Ocean Guardian” drilling rig causes partial evacuation
Rockhopper Exploration plc has confirmed that a loss of power occurred on the Ocean Guardian drill rig on the 16th October 2011 leading to a partial evacuation of all non-essential personnel. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules...by helicopter to shore. A number of local Falkland Island drivers were mobilised late on Sunday to assist in transporting evacuated crew, who had left all personal effects behind onboard”
Oct 19th, 2011 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Old news...God scared away the thieves.
Stealing is bad karma, sooner or later they'll get caught.
Keep the life jackets and diapers on :-)))
and diapers on
Oct 19th, 2011 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pity the Argies didnt use them when shiting their themselves in the Stanley post office, at the wars end :-)))))
1 Marcos Alejandro ----- And you lot know all about stealing don't you? Seeing that you stole a large country in South America and murdered most of the population that were there long before you thieving animals.
Oct 19th, 2011 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The picture above of the Ocean Guardian looks like the Titanic sinking.
Oct 19th, 2011 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you guys are like 50 years old... disturbing fact.
Oct 19th, 2011 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos - considering the OG has been constantly drilling since Feb 2010 then one can expect the occasional event. Things are back on track and the rig will spurring the next well next week :-)
Oct 19th, 2011 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The picture is from when the OG was taken when it was docked in Scotland during planned downtime. Probably could have taken a similar picture when the rig was docked in Brazil Jan 2010.
Why has your gvt not started legal proceedings? If this is theft then it would be a simple open and shut case. No?
Amazing what excites these Argies now days,
Oct 19th, 2011 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder what they will do when the oil starts to flow,??
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The average RG probably doesn't give a shit, its only these self-apponited malvinist numb nuts that get hot under the collar, and I've never seen more than about six or seven of them in a photograph of any of their protesting events.
Oct 19th, 2011 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They are just a bunch of extremist nutcases.
@ 7 briton (#) Oct 19th, 2011 - 06:19 pm
Oct 19th, 2011 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Amazing what excites these Argies now days,
I wonder what they will do when the oil starts to flow,??
You are about to find out.
I can't wait to find out fantasy. Should give us all a good laugh.
Oct 19th, 2011 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Although I think the answer will be “nothing”.
nothing.... is just very important
Oct 19th, 2011 - 11:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0nothing of any possibility of processing the oil in the continent
nothing but you are going to get the most expensive oil: extract from overseas and put it in a vessel...risky very risky 14000 km and very expensive
nothing of using our ports and our waters with the oil
nothing but the most complicated situation for you if there is an environmental problem, you are so frequently having
lots of money on prevention nobody is going to help you
and how much oil, nobodies knows exactly
Its complicated for you very complicated...and you are making an unilateral decission
Malen_
Oct 20th, 2011 - 04:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why would we need to ship or process oil in S America? Proven cheapest method for offshore in 21st century isFloating Platform SDystem - S America ports NOT required.
Who says Oil will go back to UK- it will depend on who buys it.
Environmental problems we are having? - Please LIST them - actually it will be a short list as answer to date is NONE.
Malen - you should do your research (something you Argies appear to struggle with).
Oct 20th, 2011 - 06:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Expensive - this will not be an expensive oil production area. It is not a deep water drill. As it is offshore then there are no land ownership issues and therefore no royalties to pay or mineral rights to negotiate.
Production - we already know this will be produced with a FPSO with the oil put straight onto tanker and then taken directly to who wants to finish the refining process. There are plenty of takers for medium grade crude (much cheaper to refine that the heavy grade Venezuelan rubbish).
The reason you will do “nothing” is that your gvt is both unable and unwilling to do anything. You seam unwilling to even start any legal procedings. Probably because you know this activity is legal and any such case would be thrown out. He he!
Amazing that more crap spends every waking hour on II hoping that the share prices drop and the rig sinks :)
Oct 20th, 2011 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Does the boy even have a social life, I think not, in other news, the drilling continues and Argentina squeals a bit more.
11 malen
Oct 20th, 2011 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is exploring its waters for oil, maybe the solution to your barking mad jumping up and down rants about the UK doing the same would be to start processing the same objections over your oil explorations as you are of ours.
The problem with you morons is - that like Nazi's - you are only capable of seeing one side.
The problem with the British is we are too soft, having lived in a peaceful democratic island for so long we tend to be too accepting of people.
What we should be doing is standing our ground.
Like all fascists you jump up and down, every time you see your flag. This is your one greatest weakness. nationalism doesn't make you right, just blind to what is right and wrong.
14 Rhaurie- My social life is great , thanks!
Oct 20th, 2011 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However I don't drink and drive, specially around Philomel Hill...
Marcos - Considering you are unemployable your social life should be just fine.
Oct 20th, 2011 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Beef. You bet!
Oct 20th, 2011 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Trolling on Mercopress and II is a social life....oh well in that case
Oct 20th, 2011 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...........Philomel Hill? Is that some world of warcraft 3 world that you kids seem to be into nowadays
....bit sad if you ask me
Marcos - perhaps you could use your free time to tell us all why your gvt refuses to take any legal action?
Oct 20th, 2011 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As a proportion of the population Argentina has the largest number of boyous nationalists, in other words the largest proportion of fascists in the world.
Oct 22nd, 2011 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To simplify this statement, the largest number of morons, raving loons and flag waving brain dead zombies.
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