Did you know they can register as ships — foreign ships? And that it exempts them from taxes and regulations?
Isn’t the free market great?
Offshore Rigs
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Did you know they can register as ships — foreign ships? And that it exempts them from taxes and regulations?
Isn’t the free market great?
Comments are closed.
Many of the deep drilling rigs aren’t really “rigs” in the old sense of the term in that they don’t stand on legs on the sea floor, but are actually ships kept in position by GPS-controlled thrusters.
Good to know, but it obviously presents regulatory challenges. Maybe someone should fix that!
One wonders…
If British Petroleum would refuse offers of help from the plethora of credible experts out there that actually know what the hell they’re doing, if the oil were lapping up on the shores of Ireland, Scotland, or Wales… you know, Britain.
As it will be in just about a year…
Not for the last time do I wish the phallic worshiping jew/christian/muslim cult of male domination into non-existence.