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Chris Friesen Chris Friesen is offline
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On 05/03/2010 12:39 PM, Morris Dovey wrote:
On 5/3/2010 12:55 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:


Unless the blowout preventer itself was blown up by a bomb, it should
have been designed to fail safe.


"When a failsafe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe."


True enough...but I still think it should have been able to handle the
loss of the rig above.

Chris