Report Two Dead, Two Missing in Gulf Platform Explosion

[Hissyspit]

Source: WLTV

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US Coast Guard in New Orleans reports offshore platform is burning in the Gulf of Mexico - @WWLTV http://bit.ly/T6pKIR


Report two dead, two missing in Gulf platform explosion

wwltv.com

Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Updated today at 10:06 AM


OFF THE GULF COAST - KHOU-TV says that two people are dead and two people are missing after an explosion at a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. Coast Guard confirms there is an offshore platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico in the area of West Delta Block 32.



Read more: http://www.wwltv.com/news/Coast-Guard-reports-offshore-platform-burning-in-Gulf-of-Mexico-179665361.html

[MgtPA]

1. Here we go again.

[Pharaoh]

2. Fuck! Not again

BP?

[PatrynXX]

6. fuck...

notice how everyone has one word that pops to mind. only word that comes to mind. burning platform after BP gets slap on wrist.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Not BP....independent company.

According to the Coast Guard, the fire was the result of an explosion at the "West Delta 32" owned by Black Elk Energry, an independent oil and gas company located in Houston, Texas.

A parish officials says the rig is not drilling at a deepwater site like the Macondo well that blew out in 2010.

http://rt.com/news/oil-fire-gulf-mexico-889/

No apparent learning curve, it seems.

[xchrom]

3. fuck. nt

[valerief]

4. I suppose the cause is due to more "cost-cutting measures" by the oil co or one of its contractors.

Why spend a little extra safety money when all you lose are people? People are disposable.

[nc4bo]

20. Has there been any new R&D and implementation for oil clean-up yet? Last I heard it was stuck in

the 70's.

[sheshe2]

34. and Deregulation! n/t

[MynameisBlarney]

5. OMG!

I hope they get this shit contained fast!

[hrmjustin]

7. Oh lord not again!

I hope this is contained.

[xchrom]

8. from the ap

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GULF_RIG_FIRE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-16-11-11-21

COAST GUARD: FIRE ON OIL RIG IN GULF OF MEXICO

WEST COTE BLANCHE, La. (AP) -- Coast Guard officials say they are investigating a fire at an oil drilling platform off the coast of Louisiana.

A parish officials says the rig is not drilling at a deepwater site like the Macondo well that blew out in 2010. That blowout led to an explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts tells WWL-TV that the platform is a shallow water platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is near West Cote Blanche Bay, south of New Iberia on the south-central Louisiana coast.

The Coast Guard says it has activated a command center to investigate the fire.

[yellowcanine]

11. Shallow water should be good news but who knows?

These things seem so unpredictable. Hopefully the anti spill mechanisms were in place and are working.

[femrap]

14. I wonder how

the Oil Boyz define shallow vs. deepwater?

After the BP explosion, I saw a map of the GoM and all the oil rigs. I had no idea that the Gulf is filled with them. And as they age, the materials have to degrade resulting in more accidents...wouldn't that be a realistic assumption?

I'm no Oil Boy, but just who is overseeing that these rigs are maintained and when they should be capped? And how the hell do you cap them FOREVER?

It all comes down to Oil Jobs vs. Mother Earth. If fracking destroys our water supply and drilling for oil offshore leads to no fish, just WTF are we doing? Employing people to kill everyone in the future?

I'm sick of fossil fuels...there has to be a method to drive a car and heat a house that doesn't use them.

[nc4bo]

18. Righteous rant.

Here we go again......

[Hydra]

30. Spot on

And I'd throw nukes in there as well.

The idea that we can't have safe, renewable and clean energy without breaking the bank is ludicrous- we're paying in blood for this stuff.

[femrap]

35. I was just

saying the other day that I bet the dudes on the Manhattan Project were filled with guilt.

And the General Electric design of a nuclear plant...keeping the old fuel rods at the plant. Lots of engineers/scientists quit in the '70's when they were being designed and built.

Mother Nature is pissed and I don't think we've seen anything yet. She will have the final word.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. How many years later will we wait...

... for a "manslaughter" charge?

[Klukie]

10. In related news....BP to pay $4-billion criminal fine in Deepwater Horizon spill

By Bettina Boxall and Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times
November 15, 2012, 7:05 p.m.
Laying the blame for the deaths of 11 oil rig workers in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and Gulf of Mexico spill on BP, federal prosecutors announced Thursday that two BP supervisors had been charged with manslaughter and the company would pay a $4-billion criminal fine, the largest in U.S. history.

"Those deaths were in fact unnecessary," Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said in New Orleans, adding that the federal investigation continued into the 2010 disaster and the nation's biggest offshore oil spill. "Our work is far from over."

The charges, contained in a criminal settlement with BP and an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury, paint a picture of a corporation that placed "profit over prudence," said Assistant Atty. Gen. Lanny Breuer.

Not only did the BP supervisors on board the rig the night of the explosion fail to take steps to prevent the blowout when they realized they were losing control of the deep-sea well, company executive David I. Rainey later lied to Congress about the size and severity of the spill, prosecutors said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bp-settlement-20121116,0,7055032.story

[bluedigger]

12. Well, the good news is that it's a shallow water platform.

That could be the difference between "tragic accident" and "environmental disaster redux".

[MightyAfrodite]

21. Thank goodness!!

[Lint Head]

13. We are committing aggravated assault to our oceans all over the world.

Mankind is destroying itself. We deserve the fate we receive if we do not make our politicians hold the mega corporations and individuals accountable for our environment. There are gigantic plastic islands, slime and oxygen sucking chemicals floating around with the currents. The oil companies don't give a rats ass about the environment as proven by the BP criminal actions and legal judgements.

[AAO]

33. Just a subset of mankind is destroying mankind. Mainly corporations and politicians.

[DonCoquixote]

15. Let's not forget

Oilprices got lower, and we cannot have that at all, can we? How much ya wanna bet this sort of thing is a "November surprise" to make Obama look bad.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

16. WWL-TV: US Coast Guard does not suspect oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico will produce a spill. nt

[DonCoquixote]

17. and let's not forget

This happened in Louisiana, AGAIN, the land where so called democrat Mary Landrieu will kiss Oilmen's feet, no matter how many people die in her State. And sure enough, the current will carry it to Florida, where the GOP has NOT made the connection between their love of offshore oil wells, and the fact that Florida turned blue for two straight elections.

[Arugula Latte]

19. God.Dammit.

[oswaldactedalone]

23. Let me add a

"fuck" to the chorus.

[alp227]

24. Wow the day after the BP fine???

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Exactly!

[durablend]

26. Awful conveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient, isn't it? n/t

[Zen Democrat]

27. Black Elk is headed by John Hoffman, who left BP to start this offshore operation.

Their offshore operations just began this month.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2012/10/17/black-elk-energy-launching-gulf-of.html

[Hydra]

31. lmao

Same shit, different day. Thanks for posting the link to what we were all wondering if it was exactly the same thing again.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Nice find there!!!

Ex BP oil man blows up oil platform. Headlines write themselves.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. CNN TV just reported that a worker attempted to cut the wrong pipe, causing the explosion

And four were medivac'd by helicopter.

[Posteritatis]

29. Yeeeow. (nt)

[MountainLaurel]

36. Company paid $300K fine 2 months ago

For not following proper testing procedures.

http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/11/black_elk_energy_accident_rene.html#incart_river