Expert talks about fire on Guneshli: It to be difficult to restore the platform

As a result of the accident spills of oil or gas condensate are possible, deputy director for science of the Institute of Oil and Gas Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vasily Bogoyavlensky thinks.

Deputy director for science of the Institute of Oil and Gas Problems of RAS, head of the Laboratory "Shelf", Doctor of Technical Sciences, Member of RAS Vasily Bogoyavlensky talks about the reasons for the accident at the oil platform Guneshli, about possible oil spills and other consequences that are threatened by the accident.

- Fire is blazing on the platform Guneshli for the fifth day in a row. The cause of the fire was the wind storm, which damaged an underwater pipeline. Aren’t such powerful platforms secured from this kind of disasters?