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.
As a layman outside the industry, I don’t disagree with your description of what the climate is on rigs. I have no basis to, and your comments don’t particularly run against my perception anyway. I think you make a lot of sense trying to urge folks to be careful about making comments about terrorism.
You’re still going to have to understand that it was very against the grain for Obama to say he was going to relax drilling in the GOM, and then within a short period of time we had the worse oil spill in the GOM on record.
Obama has made it perfectly clear he wishes to capitalize on the current “fear” climate, and this all looks very convenient for him.
A leftist says I’m going to relax drilling. Then the worst oil spill on record takes place, and he’s pleased as punch to take advantage of it. He tries to put a moratorium on drilling because it’s just too deep down there, then extends $2 billion in loan guarantees to PetroBras for drilling in waters three times as deep.
This is bound to cause some folks to scratch their heads.
Better yet, read the ones first posted by Xenalyte specific to the Gulf of Mexico rigs and platforms.
http://www.boemre.gov/incidents/firesexplosion.htm
http://www.boemre.gov/incidents/Incidents1996-2005.htm
I should also say that if commenting on threads on FR were restricted only to experts in the referced field of the thread FR would be a lonely place.
Hell it would be out of business if comments were restricted to our “referced” field, whatever that would be.
LOL...I’m a good one to suggest to others that they should use spell check. I think I’m going to put this thread to rest...
Just to pick at nits, I’m not convinced that Macondo was worse than Ixtoc 1.
you should be more suspicious, but for a different reason.
“why does MSM suddenly decided to report something that happens all the time.”
someone is pushing an agenda somewhere.
Well “dearie” — how about telling us how many rig explosions the Gulf has experienced in the last 10 years.
Hmmm.
**The platform owned by Mariner Energy is in about 2,500 feet of water, the Coast Guard said, and was not currently producing.**
In this reply, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2582184/posts?page=24#24 you posted this
**The rig — Vermilion Oil Rig 380 — is an oil and gas production rig located in 340 feet of water in South Timbalier Block 316,**
Is this the same rig?
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http://www.boemre.gov/incidents/firesexplosion.htm
http://www.boemre.gov/incidents/Incidents1996-2005.htm
Same rig, but a better report the second time.
Oh yeah? When?
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post 268 for example.
You make this very easy.
any more questions?
Whoops, that was for only 9 years.
Make that 1,051 fires and explosions on oil/gas rigs/platforms over the past 10 years.
The BP oil spill was NOTHING but media lies.
so is this.
I live here but I would know that if I didn’t.
Where is the BP oil spill now?
Lots of incidental explosions - damage under 25,000 K but ZERO major explosions in the GOM in 2009 and in years past.
This year we’ve had 2 hugely major ones back to back.
No wonder people are asking questions...
I could have told you...rigs, platforms, sink, blow-up, have fires...etc. Enough to realize that the BP blow-out and the Mariner fire or blow-out are not isolated incidents.
Actually, both reports have mistakes but the second has the water depth more accurate.
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