Y2K problems in British Petroleum in Egypt

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We ran into a friend of ours who works in the Brithish Petroleum Company in Egypt (top mangement) a few minutes ago and he said that they have a BIG Y2K problem. He also said that it happened just after the rollver where they were monitoring it in their crisis center. He also said that if it is not solved by tommorow morning they will have to shut down the company especially the loading and unloading of shipements.

Thinking now about it, I think that no company having Y2K problems will decalre it publicly as its shares might crach in the stock market come Monday.

I think that many have problems but will not report it unless they can not solve it during the weekend.

Anyway in the Middle East the working days start on Sunday and we will know soon enough.

I will post any furthur news as they come.

-- Sheirne (SheEgypt@yahoo.com), January 01, 2000

Answers

Sheirne,

Many thanks for this important post.

Please keep us up to date as and when you learn more about this British Pet developing story.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 01, 2000.


Sheirne,

THANK YOU...very much...we need to hear from any and all who can tell us what is happening on the front lines in oil over in Egypt and else where around the world. This is indeed significant if it cannot be fixed...though Egypt is not a big oil supplier to the USA it does have an impact on world oil markets and may well be indicative of problems elsewhere.

I agree also with your assessment about not publicizing a problem unless or until they have to. We'll look forward to further updates from you ... can you please advise us even if you've heard nothing further? Just so we'll know?? Thanks again for your information.

-- RC (racambab@mailcity.com), January 01, 2000.


If they do report a problem it will be downplayed and not the whole truth. They still don't want people to panic.

-- Moore dinty Moore (dac@ccrtc.com), January 01, 2000.

If this is happening at one company, you can bet its happening elswhere. And I believe the holiday weekend will give the techies time to install work arounds or repairs before monday morning or the next work day. Has anyone heared from Venz, South America?

-- clyde king (cjk@kiva.net), January 01, 2000.

Sheirne; Thank you for posting this information. After the last 24 hours, I will wait till there is further confirmation before I trouble my users or family with this story. My gut tells me this is true, unfortunatly, my gut doesn't think a lot. :)

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 01, 2000.


So when anyone in the media (including reuters and others) or gov't or industry says something, it's lies. But when some anonymous nobody with a free email account says something, it's "Thanks for the tip!"

Use your heads folks.

-- Mike (mike@noemail.net), January 01, 2000.


Mike.

You use your head please. we had the same story repeated ad nauseam from all wire's all night.

Since then a news blackout.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 02, 2000.


I'm sorry but your saying it was on the wires but blacked out doesn't make it so.

I check the wires last night and this morning. Does anyone have a copy?

Also Drudge loves to cover this stuff but didn't.

I am willing to believe validated sources. But I see a bunch of heresay here. not good enough for me sorry.

-- Mike (mike@noemail.net), January 02, 2000.


Sorry Mike that's not what I meant. Sometimes it's good to get a post like this - obviously you treat it cautiously.

What I am saying is that we are getting pretty much universally the same "stories" on all wires for all countries. This is not probable - not by a long shot. I'm sure there are folks all around the world that have mind-blowing pieces, they may even get them to the news feeds and what happens -

Nada - they get spiked.

There is no other explanation - Occams' Razor.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 02, 2000.


I don't believe the assumption that all press organizations in the whole world are controlled by TPTB. Sorry but I think the press would love to hear about failure stories. bad news sells. The quicker the public gets over their y2k anxiety the quicker they get back to normal and stop paying attention to the news. It's crisis that gets people to watch CNN for hours at a time. When the news is good the ratings go down.

If a British Petroleum had a big y2k problem and it hit the press, it would get out. BP would likely try to keep it from the press as long as they could I suppose, to try to get the problem under control. But it wouldn't stay under wraps for long.

That said, I didn't understand your response, did you or did you not see this story on the wires?

-- Mike (mike@noemail.net), January 02, 2000.



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