Another Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf of Mexico

[M@v]

Good job making the off shore drilling safe energy companies! /sarcasm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/us/03rig.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

NEW ORLEANS — An offshore oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said.
The New York Times

The production platform, which was operated by the Houston-based Mariner Energy, was positioned in relatively shallow waters — 340 feet deep — and to the west of where a drilling rig leased by BP blew up and sank this spring, killing 11 people and touching off an environmental calamity.

All 13 members of the work crew on board Thursday were accounted for, the Coast Guard said, though the injured worker’s condition was not immediately known. The crew were pulled from the water by a civilian boat that had been in the area, the Crystal Clear, and taken to a nearby rig, Coast Guard officials said.

Rescuers, who arrived about an hour after receiving reports of the explosion, took the crew to Terrebone General Medical Center in Houma, La.

It was unclear whether the platform was in danger of foundering, or whether the explosion had set off any oil leaks.

Government officials said the Mariner platform had not been involved in any recent oil and gas production, and that it had been undergoing maintenance work. The platform was not affected by the Obama administration’s recent ban on deepwater oil drilling, imposed in the wake of the BP spill.

The Coast Guard received two calls of an oil rig in flames at 9:19 a.m. central time on Thursday, prompting officials to scramble seven helicopters to reach the site of the explosion, located 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay in Louisiana.

Rescuers reached the scene at 10:30 a.m., and by 11 a.m., there were seven Coast Guard helicopters on the scene, five from New Orleans and two from Houston, and five Cutters.

Mariner Energy, which describes itself as one of the largest independent oil and gas companies in the Gulf, has 195 active drilling leases.

A spokesman for Mariner Energy, whose stock slid on Wall Street following news of the blast, told CNN that the platform was not engaged in any active drilling.

Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, said that President Obama was in a national security meeting in the White House Situation Room when news of the explosion began to circulate, and he was not certain whether the president had been informed.

“We obviously have response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution in the water,” Mr. Gibbs said, during a regular televised briefing.

He noted that the experience gained from the BP oil spill could prove useful in dealing with the latest incident, but said that he did not know who the highest ranking official near the scene might be.

Campbell Robertson reported from New Orleans and Jack Healy from New York. Matt Wald, Brian Knowlton, Andrew W. Lehren and Clifford Krauss contributed reporting.

 

[Crimson King]

This one is closer to me, so mega sucks that Jindal said a sheen was spotted.

$20 Obama uses this to extend the moratorium which is literally killing the region.

 

[Luigitoilet]

Dammit Obama!!!

 

[pickle962]

THAT DOES IT!!!!!! BP NEEDS TO GO BANKRUPT ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!! SERIOUSLY, IT'S BEEN ALMOST 5 MONTHS SINCE THE GULF OIL SPILL, AND I AIN'T SEEN ANYONE DO JACK**** TO BRING DOWN BP. THOSE ***HOLES NEED TO BE PUT IN JAIL FOR ****ING UP NOT ONLY THE GULF OF MEXICO, BUT ANY OTHER WATERS THEY ****ED UP AS WELL. SERIOUSLY WHAT IS GOING TO TAKE TO SEE BP GET WHAT IT DESERVES!? HUH!? WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE? ARE WE GOONA HAVE TO GO TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF BP AND SHOOT UP THE PLACE!?:flame::flame: Sorry for the all caps and stuff, but I can't stand to see the Gulf of Mexico get destroyed anymore.

 

[GoldShadow]

This wasn't a BP oil rig...

either way, this sort of thing sucks, but it will continue to happen, and the companies responsible will continue getting slapped on the wrist.

 

[Pluvia]

I think your government should handle this the way they did previously, whine and ***** and moan about it and try to pass the buck by calling BP "British Petroleum" (a name it hasn't used in years, to a company that's 39% US owned and only 40% UK owned) and generally doing nothing.

Those silly Chinese had it all wrong. Remember their big oil spill that cause hundred feet high walls of fire that lasted for over 14 hours? And spilled over 460 tonnes of oil that covered 165 square miles? That happened this July?

All their government did was combat the situation and try not to make too much of a scene. Stupid Chinese. That's not how you handle oil spills.

 

[pickle962]

@Pluvia NO our government needs to get off their lazy ***es and put an end to BP. Oh wait... This is the same government that steals our money, passes unconstitutional laws, doesn't give a **** about us, is actually run by banks and feds, is secretly working with the Illuminati, is full of people who don't know crap about how government works,and doesn't have the balls to take action against things like the BP oil spill. (sigh) November can't come soon enough...

 

[Fuelbi]

 

[pickle962]

Finally. Someone who doesn't watch fox news religiously.

 

[Fuelbi]

Wtf? I wasn't responding to your post there. I was responding on how ******** the government is.... yeah even though I LIKE books about it, I DON't ACTUALLY BELIEVE in the Illuminati

Been watching too much Angels & Demons lately?

 

[Aegri Somnia]

@Pluvia NO our government needs to get off their lazy ***es and put an end to BP. Oh wait... This is the same government that steals our money, passes unconstitutional laws, doesn't give a **** about us, is actually run by banks and feds, is secretly working with the Illuminati, is full of people who don't know crap about how government works,and doesn't have the balls to take action against things like the BP oil spill. (sigh) November can't come soon enough...

stop the new world order son!

 

[Fuelbi]

Looks like someone took Angels & Demons a bit too seriously.


The book has even been proved to have inaccuracies. Like antimatter consuming more energy than it actually produces to be a viable energy source.

 

[Aegri Somnia]

was that directed at me?

the gulf oil spill has little to do with establishing an international government.

 

[Fuelbi]

I was talking to pickle

Lol @ all the Illuminati ****. We all know it's been defunct for centuries. Until they attempt to bomb the Vatican with groundbreaking technology, I will believe they've been alive all these years (funny thing is that I'm actually in the middle of finishing up Angels & Demons when I see this thread )

 

[Aegri Somnia]

why would the illuminati want to bomb the vatican?

they're both groups derived from fundamental religious teachings and beliefs

 

[pickle962]

why would the illuminati want to bomb the vatican?

they're both groups derived from fundamental religious teachings and beliefs

You never know...I wouldn't put it past the Illuminati to do something reckless in order to ensure their plans come to fruition. But hopefully, if we do the right thing this November, we will be on the path of putting an end to government corruption.

 

[BBQTV]

they goes the ecosystem..........AGAIN!

 

[Aegri Somnia]

government corruption will always exist, the illuminati are just a small percentage of it

humans are flawed. therefore any method or system which regulates daily living are going to be flawed.

anarchy is a more suitable and realistic concept than the illuminati plotting to blow up the vatican. much more so.

 

[Fuelbi]

Gawd don't tell me you're into those bogus Illuminati conspiracies too >_______>

 

[Aegri Somnia]

...

i said the illuminati is a small percentage of the government, providing they exist to this date.

so that alone should stress that i don't further my paranoia by thinking about them.

although i do believe in other conspiricies. like the new world order.

 

[pickle962]

...

i said the illuminati is a small percentage of the government, providing they exist to this date.

so that alone should stress that i don't further my paranoia by thinking about them.

although i do believe in other conspiricies. like the new world order.

you got that right. The NWO needs to be brought to light so we can execute them.

 

[BBQTV]

whst is the new world order?

 

[pickle962]

whst is the new world order?

A bunch of satanists trying to control the world...

 

[BBQTV]

. thats it?

 

[Abilities]

what he means is:

the construction of an international, totalitarian government.

 

[BBQTV]

i doubt it

 

[Fuelbi]

What he means is that they wanna bomb the Vatican using sneaky and caniving means.


C'mon guys, let's go see what Galileo's Diagramma has to say about this!

 

[BBQTV]

how would bombing the vatican be even remotely helpful in taking over the world

 

[Fuelbi]

Because that way the Illuminati's greatest enemy, the Vatican, who hunted them down for years, would be dead duh

 

[pickle962]

Because that way the Illuminati's greatest enemy, the Vatican, who hunted them down for years, would be dead duh

Go Vatican! Bring down them Illuminati suckas once and for all.

 

[BBQTV]

well if your killing your enemies thats understandable

 

[GoldShadow]

I shouldn't be surprised, but somehow a thread about an oil rig turned into a discussion on implausible conspiracy theories. Bravo.

 

[Mic_128]

I wish I could just ban stupid people

 

[Pluvia]

Gawd don't tell me you're into those bogus Illuminati conspiracies too >_______>

Well said Roach, well said.

 

[Rici]

Hey guys, I can't tell you this directly because the Illuminati are already on to me but one of their main leaders is president Oblakjsdflkajweofjaspdfkjapwe

 

[Luigitoilet]

Wow this is the worst thread.

 

[Tacel]

You guys all remind be of Psydad.
The only conspiricy that is true is that aliens live in a submerged city in the ocean, travel through space, and are hidden from us by the government.

And we should use an alternate fuel source other than oil, or it will eventually ruin the ocean.
I suggest solor power and algae.

 

[Mota]

Angels and Demons is all part of the Illuminati ;D

Ontopic: This time it doesn't seem to be anything serious, just the media trying to get people scared and fired up again.