Despite a complete and ongoing clamp-down on official information from operator Chevron and platform contractor Atlantia, talk is circulating of "a rig with a topside-shaped hole in one of its columns".
All offshore personnel in the path of an oncoming hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuated to shore. After Rita had passed, the Typhoon TLP was found 90 kilometres from home, floating upside down with all six of its steel tendons missing.
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