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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: cavegal on June 15, 2010, 02:07:33 PM
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/15/bp-ship-halts-oil-capture-gulf/
NEW ORLEANS -- BP says a fire believed caused by lightning has shut down a system capturing oil from a gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP PLC said the fire was spotted around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday on a drill ship called the Discoverer Enterprise. The fire was quickly extinguished.
BP says were no injuries, and all procedures were followed and, as a precaution, a system siphoning oil from a containment cap above the well was shut-do
Is this possible?
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/15/bp-ship-halts-oil-capture-gulf/
Is this possible?
Well, lightning is attracted to high things, and it is pretty high out there in the middle of the Gulf. Yeah, it's possible.