The gulf about to get bitch slapped again?

skiminnesota

skiminnesota

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GRAND ISLE, LA (WAFB) - The Coast Guard is responding to another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dozens are reported injured.

According to the Coast Guard, it happened 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay.

Rescue choppers from New Orleans and Houston are responding.

The injured will be taken to hospitals in various coastal areas from Houston to the Louisiana/Mississippi border area.

hopefully there is no loss of life. or another major ecological disaster.

sorry Gnartron, I BEAT YOU TO IT! lolololol
 
Rescue efforts underway after oil rig explosion in Gulf

An oil rig has exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 12 people overboard and one missing, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning.

Rescue attempts are underway for at least 12 people, Coast Guard spokesman John Edwards told CNN. 13 people were on board the rig total, Edwards said, noting 12 have been accounted for, but one person was missing.

The accident took place 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana on the Vermilion Oil rig 380, which is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy.

The Coast Guard has multiple helicopters, an airplane and several Coast Guard cutters en route. It's unknown if there are any injuries.
 
In your OP, you say dozens are reported injured, but then in the other post you say that it is unknown if there are any injuries? Two different articles?
 
offshore drilling is just a terrible idea. It amazes me that people are not talking further initiative into implicating other energy sources; especially after the last few months.
 
yeah sorry, the first one was from some local LA station.

the second is CNN idk why nothing popped up. (link wise)
 
easy tiger.... let's just see what and where - if it was on the shelf, no problem.. hopefully.... there are thousands of shitty old fixed platforms in shallow water out there producing about a mug of oil a day....

Trying to figure out the location, then i'll know more...
 
it's really shallow water.... in vermillion bay.... piece of shit rig for mariner (who) oil? this is NOT a deepwater incident... it' in a bay, not far from land. pretty much a lake... should be no dramas... hopefully.

 
Ha ha no drama, maybe a year ago.

Mariner is a larger company, I think they just bought a lot of Apache properties. Who the fuck is running these rigs?

 
all 13 are rescued, one is injured. It's in a bay and in shallow waters so it's contained pretty well.
 
i love that between gnartron and skiminnesota i dont ever have to turn on the news. all the top headlines right in nsg. :)
 
dishflsakhjfdskjhfsd NS cuts me off again.

in relation to the oil spill. from what ive read doesnt sound like this has the potential to be as bad, but no doubt the news will overhype it to no end.
 
I just heard it on NPR, so it is legit. Only 13 guys on the rig? That sounds like a production rig, probably not drilling.
 
There are so many poxy little shelf based rigs in shallow water down there, some are really old... all these tiny operators working them over and over..

Again - it will have been some redneck goon drilling.... what is wrong with these companies! Sort out you're processes offshore FFS!

It's not difficult, the rest of the world manages.... probably because they require an iq of greater then 5 before they give you a job offshore.

idiots.

Rig wasn't producing...

You need to come get a job for one of these companies and sort them out...
 
I would also just like to point out that of all the things on a rig that could cause an explosion/fire, hydrocrabon is only 1.... of literally hundreds... this rig wasn't producing... so it could easily have been a methanol tank or something... fuck me, the deep fat fryer in the kitchen could of caught fire...

Fucking Media over here....
 
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