who are you asking? clarifycpt.fass1 wrote:
Oh and what news source is that?
another version from the Associated Press
Iranian Troops Seize Romanian Oil Rig
By ALISON MUTLER
AP
BUCHAREST, Romania (Aug. 22) - A Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire Tuesday from an Iranian military warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops, a company spokesman said.
The Iranians first fired into the air and then fired at the Orizont rig, said GSP spokesman Radu Petrescu. Half an hour later, troops from the ship boarded and occupied the rig and the company lost contact with the 26 crew members shortly afterward.
Petrescu said he had no information about any injuries or deaths. The Orizont rig has been moored near Kish island in the Persian Gulf since October 2005, he told the Associated Press.
Eugen Chira, the political consul at the Romanian Embassy in Tehran, confirmed the incident, but provided few details. "Some forces opened fire. That an incident has happened is true. We have no details or the reason yet," he said.
GSP, also known as the Oil Services Group, is a private Romanian company established in 2004 which operates six offshore rigs that it bought from Romania's largest oil company, Petrom.
Two of its rigs are operating near the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf as part of a deal signed between Petrom, GSP and Dubai-based Oriental Oil Co.
The Romanian company was in Iranian courts earlier this year over a dispute involving another one of its oil rigs, Fortuna, the financial weekly Saptamana Financiara has reported. It was unclear whether Tuesday's incident was related to legal issues.
The Orizont rig was built in 1987 and weighs 13,000 tons.
Kish, in the southern end of the Persian Gulf, houses the offices of about 100 Iranian and foreign oil companies.
Iranian Troops Seize Romanian Oil Rig
By ALISON MUTLER
AP
BUCHAREST, Romania (Aug. 22) - A Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire Tuesday from an Iranian military warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops, a company spokesman said.
The Iranians first fired into the air and then fired at the Orizont rig, said GSP spokesman Radu Petrescu. Half an hour later, troops from the ship boarded and occupied the rig and the company lost contact with the 26 crew members shortly afterward.
Petrescu said he had no information about any injuries or deaths. The Orizont rig has been moored near Kish island in the Persian Gulf since October 2005, he told the Associated Press.
Eugen Chira, the political consul at the Romanian Embassy in Tehran, confirmed the incident, but provided few details. "Some forces opened fire. That an incident has happened is true. We have no details or the reason yet," he said.
GSP, also known as the Oil Services Group, is a private Romanian company established in 2004 which operates six offshore rigs that it bought from Romania's largest oil company, Petrom.
Two of its rigs are operating near the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf as part of a deal signed between Petrom, GSP and Dubai-based Oriental Oil Co.
The Romanian company was in Iranian courts earlier this year over a dispute involving another one of its oil rigs, Fortuna, the financial weekly Saptamana Financiara has reported. It was unclear whether Tuesday's incident was related to legal issues.
The Orizont rig was built in 1987 and weighs 13,000 tons.
Kish, in the southern end of the Persian Gulf, houses the offices of about 100 Iranian and foreign oil companies.
No I've said since day one of the war on Iraq that we needed to keep our troop fresh and our war machine oiled for actual threats.. But when troops really don't want to fight Iran don't blame them that's Bush's fault for invading the wrong country.
Get over yourself man. You seem to have this 'Bush keeps getting the blame' bee in your bonnet. He has fucked up a great many things and a number of nations but this has NOTHING to do with him.Colfax wrote:
WHats sick will be that people will blame Bush for that too. Since he had the troops over there. But the FACT of the matter is Iran is and was a threat all along and everyone but Bush and his administration not was blind to it.comet241 wrote:
they have no need to reach american soil when a couple hundred thousand american troops are within striking range throughout the middle east and south asiaGunSlinger OIF II wrote:
any attack on america from iran would occur in afghanistan and would occur in Iraq
LOL romania has oil rigs ??!?!
The US can't attack Iran. We were working thru this alphabetically...Afghanistan...Iraq...Iran will have to wait its turn after North Korea.
Sorry, too much sugar today.
Sorry, too much sugar today.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/ … index.html
Found an other source also, I was asking to source it because I don't know anything about the houston source it was on. No offence but it could have been the onion.
Found an other source also, I was asking to source it because I don't know anything about the houston source it was on. No offence but it could have been the onion.
its always good to have multiple sourcescpt.fass1 wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/22/iran.romania.ap/index.html
Found an other source also, I was asking to source it because I don't know anything about the houston source it was on. No offence but it could have been the onion.
do you remember that episode of Simpson's where they found oil under the school and Mr Burns built a slanted oil rig and stole all the oil.
maybe thats what the Romanian's did?
maybe thats what the Romanian's did?
check your ww2 history. romanias oil fields had a huge strategic value to the nazis.
Man the postal service is going to be filled up with U.N. letters today.
oil gonna rise
Yeah means more profit for my stocks "crosses fingures"
Poll: Is Bush an Idiot?CameronPoe wrote:
Get over yourself man. You seem to have this 'Bush keeps getting the blame' bee in your bonnet. He has fucked up a great many things and a number of nations but this has NOTHING to do with him.Colfax wrote:
WHats sick will be that people will blame Bush for that too. Since he had the troops over there. But the FACT of the matter is Iran is and was a threat all along and everyone but Bush and his administration not was blind to it.comet241 wrote:
they have no need to reach american soil when a couple hundred thousand american troops are within striking range throughout the middle east and south asia
A moment of silence for Rove's and Cheney's underwear.
Poll: Bush administration: awesome or evil?
Poll: What do you feel about America and Bush?
The Death of the West.
These are just SOME of the topics in the past couple days. That doesn't include topics that get over ran by people pushing their anti Bush agenda. Get over yourself. I'm just sick and tired of hearing about biased opinions that ransack EVERY SINGLE TOPIC IN THIS FORUM. If you hate Bush good for you. Maybe you should have voted in the 2004 election but wait you can't your not American. And also half of the U.S put him there twice. And go ahead call us idiots but these idiots control the world and you're just to vain and jealous to admit it.
Last edited by Colfax (2006-08-22 12:35:59)
Yep you guys control the world. You guys seem to be controlling Iraq and Afghanistan pretty effectively. China is quaking in its boots. LOL. And look who just turned THIS thread into a Bush thread.Colfax wrote:
Poll: Is Bush an Idiot?CameronPoe wrote:
Get over yourself man. You seem to have this 'Bush keeps getting the blame' bee in your bonnet. He has fucked up a great many things and a number of nations but this has NOTHING to do with him.Colfax wrote:
WHats sick will be that people will blame Bush for that too. Since he had the troops over there. But the FACT of the matter is Iran is and was a threat all along and everyone but Bush and his administration not was blind to it.
A moment of silence for Rove's and Cheney's underwear.
Poll: Bush administration: awesome or evil?
Poll: What do you feel about America and Bush?
The Death of the West.
These are just SOME of the topics in the past couple days. That doesn't include topics that get over ran by people pushing their anti Bush agenda. Get over yourself. I'm just sick and tired of hearing about biased opinions that ransack EVERY SINGLE TOPIC IN THIS FORUM. If you hate Bush good for you. Maybe you should have voted in the 2004 election but wait you can't your not American. And also half of the U.S put him there twice. And go ahead call us idiots but these idiots control the world and you just to vain to admit it.
Last edited by CameronPoe (2006-08-22 12:36:59)
Got nothing else for ya man. I'm done with you.CameronPoe wrote:
Yep you guys control the world. You guys seem to be controlling Iraq and Afghanistan pretty effectively. China is quaking in its boots. LOL. And look who just turned THIS thread into a Bush thread.Colfax wrote:
Poll: Is Bush an Idiot?CameronPoe wrote:
Get over yourself man. You seem to have this 'Bush keeps getting the blame' bee in your bonnet. He has fucked up a great many things and a number of nations but this has NOTHING to do with him.
A moment of silence for Rove's and Cheney's underwear.
Poll: Bush administration: awesome or evil?
Poll: What do you feel about America and Bush?
The Death of the West.
These are just SOME of the topics in the past couple days. That doesn't include topics that get over ran by people pushing their anti Bush agenda. Get over yourself. I'm just sick and tired of hearing about biased opinions that ransack EVERY SINGLE TOPIC IN THIS FORUM. If you hate Bush good for you. Maybe you should have voted in the 2004 election but wait you can't your not American. And also half of the U.S put him there twice. And go ahead call us idiots but these idiots control the world and you just to vain to admit it.
Back to a gov't putting armed troops on a private oil rig.
any history behind this move?
CNN? ha ha CNN is the equivilent of the Onion!cpt.fass1 wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/22/iran.romania.ap/index.html
Found an other source also, I was asking to source it because I don't know anything about the houston source it was on. No offence but it could have been the onion.
Uh. Cameron is right. If you're so upset by the bush threads, why did you convert a totally innoccuous thread about completely unrelated world politics into a bush thread? You're a hypocrit tried and true.Colfax wrote:
Got nothing else for ya man. I'm done with you.CameronPoe wrote:
Yep you guys control the world. You guys seem to be controlling Iraq and Afghanistan pretty effectively. China is quaking in its boots. LOL. And look who just turned THIS thread into a Bush thread.Colfax wrote:
Poll: Is Bush an Idiot?
A moment of silence for Rove's and Cheney's underwear.
Poll: Bush administration: awesome or evil?
Poll: What do you feel about America and Bush?
The Death of the West.
These are just SOME of the topics in the past couple days. That doesn't include topics that get over ran by people pushing their anti Bush agenda. Get over yourself. I'm just sick and tired of hearing about biased opinions that ransack EVERY SINGLE TOPIC IN THIS FORUM. If you hate Bush good for you. Maybe you should have voted in the 2004 election but wait you can't your not American. And also half of the U.S put him there twice. And go ahead call us idiots but these idiots control the world and you just to vain to admit it.
Back to a gov't putting armed troops on a private oil rig.
I just converted back on topic.Colfax wrote:
Back to a gov't putting armed troops on a private oil rig.
And now you understand how i feel on every single topic.
Last edited by Colfax (2006-08-22 12:46:46)
like i was saying...any history behind this move?
why would Iran attack...just for the fun of it?
did the Romanians flash their ass at the ship as it went by?
why would Iran attack...just for the fun of it?
did the Romanians flash their ass at the ship as it went by?
I didn't even know that Iran had a battleship. I know they had the army, but wow a whole freaking battleship?
lol that kind of talk gives americans a bad name.Colfax wrote:
Poll: Is Bush an Idiot?CameronPoe wrote:
Get over yourself man. You seem to have this 'Bush keeps getting the blame' bee in your bonnet. He has fucked up a great many things and a number of nations but this has NOTHING to do with him.Colfax wrote:
WHats sick will be that people will blame Bush for that too. Since he had the troops over there. But the FACT of the matter is Iran is and was a threat all along and everyone but Bush and his administration not was blind to it.
A moment of silence for Rove's and Cheney's underwear.
Poll: Bush administration: awesome or evil?
Poll: What do you feel about America and Bush?
The Death of the West.
These are just SOME of the topics in the past couple days. That doesn't include topics that get over ran by people pushing their anti Bush agenda. Get over yourself. I'm just sick and tired of hearing about biased opinions that ransack EVERY SINGLE TOPIC IN THIS FORUM. If you hate Bush good for you. Maybe you should have voted in the 2004 election but wait you can't your not American. And also half of the U.S put him there twice. And go ahead call us idiots but these idiots control the world and you're just to vain and jealous to admit it.
who cares. let it be. the united states has more serious problems than that. we can't police the world whenever there is trouble. i say fuck the middle east. it's nothing but trouble. all those people wanna do is fucking fight about every little thing. i say fuck getting oil from there and let's get our shit from canada. boone pickins has already invested 500 million dollars of his own money into drilling into canada for oil. i think i heard that they have more oil there than the middle east does. just no one has drilled there yet.