Huge Gas Cloud Building Around Rig In North Sea.

3 or 4 rigs are now closed. I am about 200+ miles from all this, know a lad who knows a lad who works on one of the rigs evacuated.

What could go wrong here/ to a stupid person please.

Originally posted by boymonkey74

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has been monitoring the situation and said there was no indication of a risk of significant pollution to the environment.
Like someone said in a past post gas like this escapes the ocean floor all the time.

i will sleep

reply to post by shauny


Which 3 or 4 rigs?.... Where did that information come from?

read my post again.
a friend of a friend works on one of these, he is home, 3 OR 4 i recall him saying have been evacuated.
he said there was a leak, that was it. didnt pay much attention.

my dad lives less than 100miles from one of them. worried, yes

Originally posted by XxAcidxBurnxX
.............i farted! Solved!

Glad you can laugh half way around the world

Iam alot closer than you or your old man So is all my family.. Iam not worried, and no one else has a reason to be worried just now.

Your mate isnt exactly correct. We have begun to down man rigs, but only the Elgin and Viking is actually unmanned.

The 4 rigs are the Elgin Puq, Shearwater, Rowan Viking and a Noble Hans Duel drilling rig. The Franklin and Erskine rigs may be next if the gas keeps expanding.

Been keeping a watch on this as i speak with a lot of these guys on daily basis as a lot of my clients are in the North Sea.

Main thing is they all got off safe.

Update on BBC for you all

www.bbc.co.uk...

ps, Minto is correct, the elgin is powered down and empty, the rest are running on critical staff levels only.

Originally posted by minto
Iam alot closer than you or your old man

So is all my family.. Iam not worried, and no one else has a reason to be worried just now.

Your mate isnt exactly correct. We have begun to down man rigs, but only the Elgin and Viking is actually unmanned.

edit on 27-3-2012 by minto because: (no reason given)

edit on 27-3-2012 by minto because: Just checked other sources

hahaha....was expecting this reply...Hope your safe

They should just shoot a large firework up. That should get rid of this pesky gas cloud.

Problem solved.

reply to post by RevelationGeneration


no you mean different problem created but i think a fireball is

just a matter of time.

reply to post by elitegamer23

The bigger the cloud is the bigger the explosion. It sounds as if it a dense gas or it would ascend. It also seems like it has some glycol compound or glue to it so it holds together. I wonder how long till they figure this out.

reply to post by rickymouse


Until the wind blows it away...

Ok...so does this take us back to the web bot prediction of thousands of deaths by a gas cloud?

reply to post by smcneil01


Why not? Sounds like fun. I really ought to try to kick this epilepsy so I can go back to work.

This is just freakin great! First BP poisoned all of the sea food in the gulf of Mexico now the douche bags at Dutch Shell are trying to poison all the sea life in the North Sea and eventually the Atlantic. Isn'[t about time that we gave up on fossil fuel, nuclear power and all of this other dangerous sh$t? These Corporations are raping the planet and every person on it!

reply to post by Mossadstooge


are you forgetting that they are getting this stuff for us?

reply to post by rickymouse


Holy crap! So they're trying to blow up Scotland Too? Those Bastards! Scoundrels! How much more?

reply to post by DavidsHope
I am so thankful for this website, and couldn't agree more with your comments. I live in Newcastle, North East England and have not heard a thing about this until now. 20 minutes till the BBC 10 o'clock news, so going to read up on it all and wait for the news, lets see if they mention it.... coincidentally I am watching the programme before hand 'Horizon: Global Weirding' all about how 'weird' our weather has been recently and how the 'weird' erratic weather is becoming more and more common and disastrous... hmmm. Shall update if anything is said on the news xx

reply to post by Mossadstooge


Also like I have posted in this thread (but he has not read it) it happens all the time in nature.
The wind will blow it away, no one will die and at the worst it will explode.
It is gas not oil remember.