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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: cavegal on June 15, 2010, 02:07:33 PM

Title: BP: Ship Fire Halts Oil Capture in Gulf
Post by: cavegal on June 15, 2010, 02:07:33 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/15/bp-ship-halts-oil-capture-gulf/ 

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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?
Title: Re: BP: Ship Fire Halts Oil Capture in Gulf
Post by: IassaFTots on June 15, 2010, 04:01:11 PM
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.