Breaking: oil rig explodes off of LA coast

[Newbian]

Anyone have an idea what the rig was doing?

Playing catch with some explosives.

 

[jman19]

A whole lot of coincidence here to push Obama's agenda. We need to have an independent agency look into this one to see if it was underwater divers or munitions that caused it. Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, third is enemy action.

You've gone from troll to tin foil nutter - congrats!

 

[her209]

A whole lot of coincidence here to push Obama's agenda. We need to have an independent agency look into this one to see if it was underwater divers or munitions that caused it. Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, third is enemy action.

Damn that Kenyan-born Muslim!

 

[Capt Caveman]

Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion

NEW ORLEANS, La. --The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.

The site of the explosion is west of where BP's massive spill occurred.

The Coast Guard said no one was killed Thursday in the explosion. The blast was spotted by a commercial helicopter flying over the site.

All 13 people aboard the rig were found floating in the water in survival gear

 

[Fear No Evil]

Maybe these were some leftover explosives from Bush blowing up the levy's?

 

[Vette73]

Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion

Rigs have fuel onboard so there is plenty of oil/fuel just for rig use. So it may be not much in the grand scheme.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Rigs have fuel onboard so there is plenty of oil/fuel just for rig use. So it may be not much in the grand scheme.

Yahoo

The platform is a fixed petroleum platform that was in production at the time of the fire, according to a homeland security operational update obtained by The Associated Press.

The update said the platform was producing about 58,800 gallons of oil and 900,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The platform can store 4,200 gallons of oil.

 

[Vette73]

Yahoo

Ahh thats different. Everything I read so far said it was not running. That and claims it is also tied to BP does not help.

 

[Acanthus]

This is within the same operating area as the other rig.

Same management, lets see if they used seawater instead of concrete on this rig too.

 

[Bird222]

Drill, Baby, Drill!!!

 

[Pepsei]

A whole lot of coincidence here to push Obama's agenda. We need to have an independent agency look into this one to see if it was underwater divers or munitions that caused it. Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, third is enemy action.

history of rig accidents

it actually happens all the time. now, as to why this is being reported now... i leave that up to your imagination.

 

[Thump553]

The news I've seen is very sparse. Was this another deep water rig?

 

[Acanthus]

The news I've seen is very sparse. Was this another deep water rig?

Shallow, 350ft

 

[Capt Caveman]

a whole lot of coincidence here to push obama's agenda. We need to have an independent agency look into this one to see if it was underwater divers or munitions that caused it. Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, third is enemy action.

lol

 

[her209]

history of rig accidents

it actually happens all the time. now, as to why this is being reported now... i leave that up to your imagination.

Because generally people didn't give a shit before until the Deep Horizon explosion.

 

[Vette73]

history of rig accidents

it actually happens all the time. now, as to why this is being reported now... i leave that up to your imagination.

Are you being real?

Your own link show ZERO accidnets at 10million or above and only 2 that hit 1million+.

Only large numbr is in the Incidental area and that is less then 25k.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Lot of conflicting data coming out. Producing, not producing. 350ft of water, 2500ft of water???????????

 

[Pepsei]

well, i'm just saying that this particular incident shouldn't even be reported in the first place.

but her209 is right "Because generally people didn't give a shit before until the Deep Horizon explosion."

now look at all the incidents in the world here. link

 

[GroundedSailor]

It appears the well was in production, The update said the platform was producing 58,800 gallons of oil and 900,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The platform can store 4,200 gallons of oil.


Found this on another forum. Mariner energy owns the rig that exploded.

One Day Before Its Gulf Oil Rig Exploded, Mariner Energy Said Obama ‘Is Trying To Break Us’ With Moratorium

The U.S. Coast Guard said this morning that a natural gas and oil drilling platform exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana. A Coast Guard spokesperson said the platform, Vermilion Oil Rig 360, is an oil and gas platform in 2,500 feet of water and is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy. It is not currently producing oil or gas. (The AP updates its story to note the platform was in production at the time of the fire.) Apache Corp. recently purchased Mariner in a multi-billion dollar deal.

Just yesterday, however, the Financial Times reported that employees from Apache and Mariner, along with thousands of oil industry workers, rallied in Houston to protest the Obama administration’s offshore drilling moratorium that was designed as a safety precaution after BP’s disastrous Gulf oil spill. A Mariner Energy employee chastised the Obama administration for its drilling moratorium, which would not have affected the rig that exploded today:

Companies ranging from Chevron to Apache bussed in up to 5,000 employees to the Houston convention centre to underline to Washington the industry’s contribution to the country. [...]

“I have been in the oil and gas industry for 40 years, and this administration is trying to break us,” said Barbara Dianne Hagood, senior landman for Mariner Energy, a small company. “The moratorium they imposed is going to be a financial disaster for the gulf coast, gulf coast employees and gulf coast residents.”

Apache Corp. recently agreed to buy BP assets in order to help the British oil giant meet its financial obligations as a result of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Thirteen workers were on the rig when it exploded; the Coast Guard has said that “all 13 workers involved in the production platform explosion are accounted for, but one person is injured.”
Update The Washington Post reports, "In its recent Securities and Exchange filing, the company said that the Interior Department's moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico had affected Mariner's operations. It said its operations 'may be impacted in the future by increased regulatory oversight, which may increase the cost of' Outer Continental Shelf wells 'and delay drilling and production therefrom.'"

Talk of bad timing....


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[Vette73]

well, i'm just saying that this particular incident shouldn't even be reported in the first place.

but her209 is right "Because generally people didn't give a shit before until the Deep Horizon explosion."

now look at all the incidents in the world here. link

AGAIN your own link shows very few major incidents in the last decade.

Do you even read your own links. The major ones are from 1980, 1979, 1982, etc...

But yea they are just following it now.

Show me a rig that exploded and threw its crew into the water and had the coast guard pick them up that did not make the news in the US.

 

[PottedMeat]

Companies ranging from Chevron to Apache bussed in up to 5,000 employees to the Houston convention centre to underline to Washington the industry’s contribution to the country.

heheh

Corporate: Let's have a big rally with our workers to tell Washington we need to keep drilling! We need everyone there!
Rig: Hey we need at least 14 guys to keep the rig running safely...
Corporate: Nah, you guys will be fine!

 

[Jaskalas]

Hopefully the spill stays minimal.....

 

[JSt0rm]

A whole lot of coincidence here to push Obama's agenda. We need to have an independent agency look into this one to see if it was underwater divers or munitions that caused it. Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, third is enemy action.

You are so crazy.

 

[Acanthus]

now places are reporting 2500 feet... some articles said 350.

2500 is certainly a deepwater rig.

There should be people in jail over this if we find they used seawater instead of concrete/drilling mud to speed things up again.

 

[manimal]

You are so crazy.

Its satire dontcha know.....


Rush is satire..............
Beck is entertainment...
lies are opinion............