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…