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Three Dead, Seventeen Injured on a Chevron Platform Off Angola — What the Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this, someone you love was on the BBLT platform on May 20, 2025. Maybe they are one of the three who did not come home. Maybe they are one of the seventeen who were burned, who breathed the smoke, who are in a hospital bed right now while someone from the company calls the house to say they are “supporting the impacted individuals.” That call is not your friend. It is the first move in a process that is already running — a process designed to protect the company, not your family. We are writing this because the hardest thing about this case is also the first thing: it happened fifty miles off the coast of Angola, on a platform operated by a subsidiary of a U.S. oil giant, during a maintenance shutdown that the operator controlled. That combination creates a jurisdictional puzzle that most lawyers will never untangle, and the company is counting on exactly that. They are counting on you not knowing whether an American court can even hear this case. They are counting on…