Angola Personal Injury

Offshore Oil Platform Fire & Industrial Accident Attorneys — 17 Injured in the Chevron Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) Deep-Water Platform Fire, Block 14 Concession 97 km Off Angola’s Cabinda Coast, Basement Blaze During a Scheduled Maintenance Shutdown — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Offshore Industrial Cases, We Pursue the Operators and Maintenance Contractors Behind Platform Fires During Turnarounds When Hot Work and Open Systems Create Disproportionate Ignition Risk, Jones Act and General Maritime Law Protections Where US Employment Ties Exist Including the Unseaworthiness Warranty, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Shutdown Safety Plan, Hot Work Permits, Fire Suppression Logs and Gas Detection Records Before Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and Millions More in Catastrophic Matters, Contractor Personnel Rotate Off Platforms Rapidly and Safety System Data Is on a Retention Clock — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Chevron BBLT Angola Offshore Oil Platform Fire: Your Rights After a Deep-Water Maintenance Shutdown Fire You got the call at an hour no family member ever wants to hear it. A fire on the platform. Your loved one is hurt — one of seventeen, one of four classified as serious — and they are being evacuated from a steel structure sitting ninety-seven kilometers out in the Atlantic, off the coast of Cabinda, in waters where the rules are different from anything you know. Chevron has confirmed all personnel are accounted for. The Angolan petroleum agency says the cause is under investigation. And you are sitting at a kitchen table wondering what happens next — whether your family has any legal rights at all, and whether the company that controlled that platform when the fire erupted at three in the morning is going to tell you the truth about what happened in that basement. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore injury cases, industrial fire and explosion cases, and the catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death work that follows them. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and has recovered over $2 million in a maritime…

Chevron BBLT Platform Fire Offshore Angola, 17 Workers Injured and 4 Seriously During Scheduled Shutdown Maintenance — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Offshore Oil Platform Fire Cases, We Pursue the Operator and Its Corporate Parent, the Maintenance Contractors and the Equipment Chain Behind the Basement-Deck Blaze, We Secure the Hot-Work Permits, Gas-Test Logs and DCS Fire-Detection Data Before Contractor Crews Disperse and Process Records Are Archived, Burn and Trauma Injuries with the Firm’s $2M+ Maritime Settlement Record and $50M+ Total Recovered for Injury Victims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Cases, the Jurisdictional Battleground Between US Maritime Law and Foreign-Forum Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Chevron BBLT Platform Fire: 17 Injured During Scheduled Shutdown Offshore Angola If your husband, your son, your brother was on the Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco platform on May 20, 2025, you already know the worst part — the phone call, the helicopter evacuation, the hours not knowing how badly he was burned. What you may not know yet is that the legal clock on this fire is unlike anything most families have ever faced, because the platform sits in Angolan waters, the operator is a Chevron subsidiary most people have never heard of, and the evidence of what caused this fire is already being packed away as the shutdown wraps up. We are going to walk you through every piece of it — what happened, who is responsible, what your rights actually are, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what to do before the proof disappears. This page is long because the truth is long. Take it in pieces. We are here when you are ready. What Happened on the Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco Platform On May 20, 2025, a fire broke out on the basement deck of the Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco deepwater platform in…