In minor accident, second drilling rig overturns in Lousiana

[PrismatexV8]

[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63T55Q20100430[/url]
[release](Reuters) - An inland shallow-water drilling rig capsized near Morgan City, Louisiana, while being towed to a salvage yard, the Coast Guard said on Friday.

There were no injuries, and navigation was not affected by the incident in the Charenton navigation channel south of U.S. 90 near Morgan City, Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said.

"This is not a major waterway," he said. "Nobody was on board. It was being towed."

The incident followed the April 20 explosion of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, in which 11 people died. The rig sank and a disastrous oil spill has ensued.

A 210-foot-long barge rig, which worked swampland and shallow water oil and gas prospects, was involved in Friday's incident, the Coast Guard said.

It had a 20,000-gallon diesel tank but carried only about 200 gallons of fuel when it capsized. Spill containment boom was put around it as a precaution, the Coast Guard said.

O'Berry said the rig was owned by T. Moore Services in Franklin, Louisiana. A telephone call to the company was not returned.[/release]

Phew.

[Dacheet]

Jeez, Louisiana is having a bad rep for the 21st century.

[Dr Magnusson]

Maybe they should just leave oildrilling to another state..

[Dacheet]

[QUOTE=Dr Magnusson;21658324]Maybe they should just leave oildrilling to another state..[/QUOTE]

Alaska?

[Madman_Andre]

[QUOTE=Dacheet;21658336]Alaska?[/QUOTE]

Drill baby drill!

[Comcastic]

[QUOTE=Dacheet;21658336]Alaska?[/QUOTE]
New show on discovery, "The deadliest drill".

[Madman_Andre]

[QUOTE=Comcastic;21665425]New show on discovery, "The deadliest drill".[/QUOTE]

Nah, it'll be called "When The Rigs Strike Back." :v:

[Joey Skylynx]

"Frozen Black" would send a lot more epic.

[NUSA5]

Sounds like a [b]drilling[/b] Experience.

[bravehat]

Don't they already have a show in texas about riggers working on the land derricks?

[ViralHatred]

[QUOTE=bravehat;21666921]Don't they already have a show in texas about riggers working on the land derricks?[/QUOTE]

Yes, it was produced by the same company that made Ice Road Truckers.

[Exploits]

Louisiana's just gonna be a ghost state isn't it.

[Zenreon]

People will be trolling around in motor-boats in the motor-oil

[Keeshond v2]

[QUOTE=bravehat;21666921]Don't they already have a show in texas about riggers working on the land derricks?[/QUOTE]

I read that so wrong.

It rhymes with riggers.