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Marc Jacobs

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Another oil rig just blew up in the gulf...
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The area can't catch a break. I wonder if anything has been learned from the BP disaster...



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what?!?!? omg

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GRAND ISLE, La. — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.

A commercial helicopter company reported the blast around 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats were en route to the site, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast.

The Coast Guard said initial reports indicated all 13 crew members from the rig were in the water. One was injured, but there were no deaths.

The platform owned by Mariner Energy is in about 2,500 feet of water, the Coast Guard said, and was not currently producing.

About 206 million gallons of oil from an undersea well spilled into the Gulf after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.



Not sure what impact this will have, but any oil-related disasters are the last thing we need right now.



-- Edited by D on Thursday 2nd of September 2010 11:22:00 AM

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Seems like everyone on the platform/rig is safe and rescued. Reports are saying the rig/platform wasn't "active" so they are hoping that equated to no leaks...

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So far, so good. No leaks are being reported.

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A few more of these and we might have to do something about it.



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Su - that is the one bit of good that is hopefully going to come from this.

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