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Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by mukina2: 3:00pm On Mar 06, 2012
A natural gas fire that killed two people and destroyed a Chevron Corp. rig off the coast of Nigeria has stopped on its own, the company said Tuesday, ending an ocean inferno that burned for 46 days.

The natural gas at the Funiwa field, just off Nigeria's Bayelsa state, stopped bubbling to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, extinguishing a fire visible from the coast, Chevron spokesman Russell A. Johnson said. Chevron only confirmed the fire had stopped on Tuesday, but gave no reason why it delayed the announcement.

Johnson acknowledged gas could begin flowing again from the well and said Chevron would continue to dig a relief well nearby to permanently plug the site.

"We continue to watch to ensure gas doesn't begin to flow," Johnson said.

Those living near the rig awoke Jan. 16 to a series of explosions from Chevron's KS Endeavor natural gas rig, which sits only 10 kilometers (6 miles) from shore. Two workers died in the blast, who officials have identified as nationals of India and France.

The raging fire at the site has softened the steel of the rig, causing it to collapse into the ocean.

Chevron says it continues to investigate what started the fire. Nigeria's government believes a "gas kick" — a major buildup of gas pressure from drilling — caused by an industrial accident was responsible for the blaze.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/06/international/i003244S42.DTL
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by Nobody: 3:25pm On Mar 06, 2012
2bad,  embarassed
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by Coleanita46: 3:26pm On Mar 06, 2012
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Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by Ogbodavies(m): 3:35pm On Mar 06, 2012
Thank God 4 puttin out d fire,if it was left 2 govt and chevron it would last til july
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by humblebee: 3:44pm On Mar 06, 2012
Coleanita46:

For your jamb expo cal 07055215574


you will become a parent soon, is this what you will teach your children and they become useless politicians buying their ways up there, shior
wat makes me think you're not a parent already sef breeding failures and cheats
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by klas(m): 4:17pm On Mar 06, 2012
Ogbodavies:

Thank God 4 puttin out d fire,if it was left 2 govt and chevron it would last til july

But it also took God 46 days to extinguish the fire. Government just have to be derided in Nigeria.
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by GboyegaD(m): 4:21pm On Mar 06, 2012
In reality, does the government care The only thing they care about is that whatever is available in the treasury should be looted.
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by texazzpete(m): 5:04pm On Mar 06, 2012
Ogbodavies:

Thank God 4 puttin out d fire,if it was left 2 govt and chevron it would last til july

Putting out fires like this one is an extremely tricky op. Have you forgotten so soon how long it took the US Govt and BP to kill that well off the coast of the US? and that was OIL which is usually easier to contain than Gas.
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by blackweaver(m): 5:29pm On Mar 06, 2012
klas:

But it also took God 46 days to extinguish the fire. Government just have to be derided in Nigeria.

Actually God was waiting for the govt to put out the fire but when he saw that they were dragging their feet over the issue He decided to intervene
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by ichidodo: 5:58pm On Mar 06, 2012
Tank God o! 4 dose niger deltans. It was a gas field, assumin it was an oil field wit d level of incompetence of chevron and govt. We would have had an oil slick stretchin 4rum bakassi to porto novo. Tank God o.
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by dustydee: 6:34pm On Mar 06, 2012
Coleanita46:

For your jamb expo cal 07055215574
shocked shocked . If this is what you do for a living, it will not be well with you.
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by Talentgift: 6:51pm On Mar 06, 2012
shocked Let's thank Baba God for showing how great HE HIS. Jux leave those fools to keep fooling themselves.
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by Lawalemi(m): 8:13pm On Mar 06, 2012
God's supremacy will now enable Chevron to keep billions of naira earmarked for this operation to themselves. The MD should now know that God exists!
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by texazzpete(m): 10:12pm On Mar 06, 2012
Talentgift:

shocked Let's thank Baba God for showing how great HE HIS. Jux leave those fools to keep fooling themselves.

I think the only fool here is yourself. How can you delight in your poor education?

Lawalemi:

God's supremacy will now enable Chevron to keep billions of naira earmarked for this operation to themselves. The MD should now know that God exists!

No wonder many Nigerians struggle to pass JAMB. It's written in plain English in the OP that Chevron will continue drilling the relief well to ensure the well is killed permanently. There is no way in hell that anyone would accept the current status quo where nobody knows why the gas stopped flowing or if it will continue to bubble to surface later.

For the benefit of any other m0r0n who wants to make another imbecilic comment, didn't you dolts follow the news when the BP oil spill disaster was happening?
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by beespak7(m): 2:06am On Mar 07, 2012
These wicked oil companies keep polluting and messing up our nigerian enviroment, without any concrete plan for rehabiltation and clean up. while our federal goverment keeps watching them like plasma tv.
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by RuuDie(m): 7:17am On Mar 07, 2012
Funiwa is in Bayelsa. . . . .isn't it supposed to be in Delta
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by texazzpete(m): 7:47am On Mar 07, 2012
beespak7:

These wicked oil companies keep polluting and messing up our nigerian enviroment, without any concrete plan for rehabiltation and clean up. while our federal goverment keeps watching them like plasma tv.

Yes, because Chevron deliberately drilled into a high pressure gas reservoir, had a blowout and planned the deaths of two of their expatriate staff. They also planned the destruction of a drilling platform worth tens of millions of dollars.

/sarcasm
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by buJu234: 9:43am On Mar 07, 2012
Bp will pay $7b compensation in the US; lets how much Chevron will pay in GEJ state?
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by Lawalemi(m): 10:00pm On Mar 07, 2012
Tezzazpet, u are drunk!
Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by beespak7(m): 11:13pm On Mar 07, 2012
texazzpete:

Yes, because Chevron deliberately drilled into a high pressure gas reservoir, had a blowout and planned the deaths of two of their expatriate staff. They also planned the destruction of a drilling platform worth tens of millions of dollars.

/sarcasm



Take a trip to the niger delta, and see the mess and pollution these oil companies have done there and come back and make a report. Do you think they will try these rubish if nigeria were to be in europe ?


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Re: Chevron Gas Rig Fire At Funiwa Field, Bayela Stops Burning After 46 Days by texazzpete(m): 7:04am On Mar 08, 2012
beespak7:

Take a trip to the niger delta, and see the mess and pollution these oil companies have done there and come back and make a report. Do you think they will try these rubish if nigeria were to be in europe ?

This exact same tragedy happened with BP off the coast of the US. So that was BP 'trying rubbish' abi?

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