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[quote]HOUSTON -- A fire on an oil rig owned by a Houston-based energy company left two workers dead and two more missing off the coast of Louisiana, a company spokesman confirmed.
Four other workers were air-lifted to a hospital in Jefferson Parish, said Kirk Trascher, a spokesman for Black Elk Energy. Trascher said it was unknown if any oil spilled into the Gulf.
The U.S. Coast Guard in New Orleans also confirmed the fire early Friday morning, saying the rig was an oil-gas production platform.
Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts told WWL-TV the rig in question is a shallow water platform located in West Delta Block 32 in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said the location is about 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana.
The guard activated a "command center" to investigate the incident, and two helicopter teams -- one from Mobile, Alabama and the other from New Orleans -- were called in to help with the search. Two small boat stations out of Grand Isle and Venice were also sent to the scene.
Check back for updates to this developing story.[/quote]
[url]http://www.khou.com/news/local/Coast-Guard-reports-offshore-platform-burning-in-Gulf-of-Mexico-179668691.html[/url]
More information as it comes. It doesn't seem that any oil was released at this time.
Holy shit. The south doesn't catch a break.
This is how the last one started. :/
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;38474919]This is how the last one started. :/[/QUOTE]
Well the Deepwater Horizon was a floating deep water rig which physically sank, causing the pipe under it to buckle making the whole situation a million times worse. These shallow water rigs are built on top of metal towers so it is unlikely that it will sink, causing the same problem as the BP spill. The blowout preventors (the thing that failed on the BP rig) are also above the surface, so they can be shut off manually making the chance of a catastrophic blowout minimal.
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I don't suppose this rig also happens to be owned by BP by any chance?
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;38474999]I don't suppose this rig also happens to be owned by BP by any chance?[/QUOTE]
It's operated by Houston based Black Elk Energy: [url]http://www.blackelkenergy.com/[/url]
you'd be surprised how many "small" oil and gas companies there are.
[QUOTE=OvB;38474974]The blowout preventors (the thing that failed on the BP rig) are also above the surface, so they can be shut off manually making the chance of a catastrophic blowout minimal.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/251301/stuff/swescsalazar.jpg[/IMG]
Here, have an image which can actually be read.
Video with the CEO of the company:
[url]http://www.khou.com/video?id=179668691&sec=548357&ref=articlevidmod[/url]
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