This cost eventually finds its way to the oil companies who countermeasure by hiring third-party security specialists. They are tasked with providing close protection and defending the rig and its personnel. Depending on whom you’re working for and where, these people vary from thugs with guns to mercenaries to ultra-professional ex-elite-forces personnel who tend to be of medium build and height, quiet and organized, and for all intents and purposes look like my accountant. Except they can perform complex mental calculations while constructing a shaped charge to breach a hotel fire door
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