He said when he awoke he saw a liquid gushing out from where the valve was and "realised that the block valve had exploded." Chin-A-Fat said in his years of experience he "never had any accidents" and believed there was a defect in the installation of the valve which was poorly maintained before the incident. He said prior to the incident he was aware that the platform had been shutdown and had not been operational for sometime. Many of the pipelines had become corroded," he said.