Before BP Deep Water Horizon rig fire disaster in Gulf of Mexico, Australia had a similar disaster with Montara rig, offshore north WA. Of course, there’s no disaster recovery equipment here at all. Minister Martin Ferguson, now advocate for expanding petrochem industry, supposedly established a regulatory body to make sure of decent design and execution by drilling companies. Much noise gets made and even budgets established but did anything ever get done?

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