Having learned multiple lessons from turning the Gulf of Mexico several shades blacker in the middle of the year, news has just come in that they blew up another one. This one doesn't appear to be as disastrous as the last time so far, and all thirteen people have been accounted for, but though the platform wasn't producing at the time, there's no word so far on whether this means another leak.

What's especially inconvenient from a work point of view is that when I read that the name of the oil rig is was "Vermilion 380", it seemed awfully familiar as one of the vaguely sensible location names that I had to examine in the latest iteration of the hierarchy for one of our clients at work, in between all the pig launchers, large rack holders and ballcock suck units. But when I checked back, I saw that they listed a large number of Vermilion units, but fortunately for them, not rig 380.

So I'm relieved, but also a little disappointed, that I won't be able to open a new issue about the location hierarchy saying "Well, you won't be needing this one any more".