Posted on 09/02/2010 8:40:14 AM PDT by Pyro7480
WWL-TV in New Orleans has confirmed the Coast Guard is responding to a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dozens are reported injured.
According to the Coast Guard, it happened 80 miles south of Grand Isle.
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.
How many of those fire/explosions resulted in the entire crew being in the water, requiring resuce? How many were little things a local fire extinguisher put out?
That is insane. Those things blow up.
Supi-dent. I like that term. I have a few scars related to those and a couple darn-lucky-to-be-alive stories.
According to the MMS/BOEMRE real-time data I was looking at before I came home for lunch, the lease is producing, so that means (and please forgive me if you already know this) that at least one well on the lease is flowing.
Whether that well is attached to the platform in question, I don’t know. I can’t get to the data site from home and will check when I get back.
As do I.
How long will it be this time before Obama even speaks with the CEO of THIS oil company? There's no other answer as to why he didn't speak with the BP CEO for so long other than that it needed to be part of something planned. None, if you really think about it.
The America economy/sovereignty-destroying powers that (now) be are starting to physically deliver their collapse-intending Joe Pesci whack to the back of America's knees: (Physical-structurally) I see our left knee as energy and our right knee as electronic communications.
Soros did some monetary shuffling just last week...and now this explosion...but I'm starting to sound conspiratorial.
Thank God that everyone on the rig made it off alive, and prayers to them and their families that they"ll all be OK.
What else is there to think?
That rigs blow up (see post 268 for some recent stats).
Occam’s razor, my dear.
FURTHER info:
>>”As far a shelf development projects at Vermilion 380, we are progressing with our development there. We drilled four wells and completed one of them before Hurricane Ike damaged the platform. Remaining development involves drilling of one additional well and completion of all wells. And we hold a 100% interest in the new drilling at Vermilion 380.
We estimate approximately 40 Bcf in proved and probable reserves in this field. And as soon as the pipeline and platform repairs are completed, we will commence production from the new wells, which should occur in the next several months.”
(Mariner Energy, Inc. (ME) Q4 2008 Earnings Call February 27, 2009)
http://seekingalpha.com/article/123270-mariner-energy-inc-q4-2008-earnings-call-transcript
DG
But click the link. Those are ALL major events and many resulting in deaths.
I can’t speak for thackney, but for the figures I provided, a threshold has to be reached for an incident to be reported to the federales.
If you drop a welding torch and burn a hole in the floor, not reported. If you do $20 million in damage by so dropping, prepare to become a statistic.
I’ll go with that.....WhiskyTangoFoxtrot is right!.......
FTR, I pulled those from the BOEMRE Fast Facts area.
Also, just for your edification, my department has decided that BOEMRE is pronounced “bummer.”
Okay, I just checked. I had nothing to do with this rig.
Agreed! Something isn’t right here. Like Frantzie said, nothing like this happened under Bush or Clinton! The Asshat in the Oval Office is useless!
more:
>>”Our largest field in the Gulf of Mexico Shelf by reserves is Vermilion 380. At year-end 2008, estimated proved reserves attributed to this field were 33.1 Bcfe, consisting of approximately 50% oil and 50% natural gas. During 2008, we drilled three wells and completed one well before Hurricane Ike damaged the platform. Hurricane Ike also interrupted the drilling of a fourth well. Remaining development involves finishing the drilling of the fourth well, drilling a fifth well and completing the remaining wells. We anticipate that production from the five new wells will commence by third quarter 2009. The field currently has two producing wells (one of which is the new well we drilled and completed in 2008) in 340 feet of water. These two wells produced approximately 0.5 Bcfe in 2008. We generated this prospect from former Forest properties and hold a 100% working interest in the newly drilled wells.”
DG
Thanks for the clarification. It makes the numbers clearer as to what is going on.
Do a little research yourself.
Thanks! I’ve tongue-stumbled over that one until now.
Good thing you spoke up! I was about to start pointing fingers your way.
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