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    Posted: 25 June 2010 at 4:16pm
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's government has seized control of 11 oil rigs owned by U.S. driller Helmerich & Payne, which shut them down because the state oil company was behind on payments.

Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez announced that Venezuela would nationalize the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company's rigs. He said in a statement Wednesday that Helmerich & Payne had rejected government demands to resume drilling operations for more than a year.

Helmerich & Payne announced in January 2009 that it was stopping operations on two of its drilling rigs, because Venezuela's state-run oil company, PDVSA, owed the company close to $100 million. It said it would shut down the rest of its rigs by the end of July as contracts expired unless PDVSA began to make good on its debts.

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Um, they can't do that?
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Sure they can.

Wonder what they would do if we dropped a couple JDAMs on those rigs.  Perhaps even give them time to evacuate beforehand.
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Originally posted by Rofl_Mao Rofl_Mao wrote:

Um, they can't do that?


Why not? They sieze airplanes if you stop paying for them. They sieze your house if you stop paying. same idea
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Originally posted by choopie911 choopie911 wrote:

Originally posted by Rofl_Mao Rofl_Mao wrote:

Um, they can't do that?


Why not? They sieze airplanes if you stop paying for them. They sieze your house if you stop paying. same idea


I may have misunderstood the article, but the way I read it was that the South American company stopped paying the Tulsa company, so the Tulsa Company who owned the rig shut it down. The Venezuelan Government then came in and took over the rigs.

So it would see the foul is still on them.
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Originally posted by choopie911 choopie911 wrote:

Originally posted by Rofl_Mao Rofl_Mao wrote:

Um, they can't do that?


Why not? They sieze airplanes if you stop paying for them. They sieze your house if you stop paying. same idea

No, this would be like seizing the bank because you didn't pay them for your house.
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Then clearly I misunderstood, whoops
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