A platform on the Gulf Coast had a problem. This originated from an oil rig explosion. One injury was reported with no deaths. There is no reason for blast yet. The blast happened in an oil rig on the coast of Louisiana close to Vermillion Bay. The rig is fairly far from the British Petroleum oil platform that exploded in April as it is owned by Mariner Energy. The Gulf Coast oil leak was a Deepwater rig when the Vermillion oil rig is in shallow waters.
Oil rig explosion only discover ones injured
Only one person was injured in the gas rig surge. 13 people did end up overboard following the drilling platform erupted. The brand new York Times reports that the Coast Guard got more than one report of a gas platform explosion after 9 a.m.. Helicopters and Coast Guard vessels arrived about an hour later. All 13 workers that went into the water after the blast were rescued and accounted for. Only one of the rig workers was injured, which is nothing short of miraculous, considering that the Deepwater oil rig explosion claimed 11 lives.
Shallower waters than British Petroleum oil rig
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig was drilling at a far greater depth than Vermillion Oil Rig 380. About 100 miles off the Louisiana coast was where the Vermillion oil rig sits with only 340 feet of water below. 9.2 million cubic feet of natural gas and 1,400 barrels of oil were coming out of the rig, says CNN. The Coast Guard is working on extinguishing the fire on the deck. As soon as people caught wind of the surge, business shares went down. In fact, Mariner Energy dropped 5 percent.
Concerns over offshore drilling
The subject of offshore drilling has been a hot topic for years. It looks really dangerous and has too numerous risks to the environment each and every time an oil rig explodes. Though British Petroleum has stepped up to the plate to take responsibility for the oil spill, resource extraction companies rarely clean up their own messes, and taxpayers often get stuck with an additional Superfund site.
Further reading
CNN
edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/02/louisiana.oil.rig.explosion/?hpt=T2#fbid=QdDzKvaTDgY and wom=false
NY Times
nytimes.com/2010/09/03/us/03rig.html?partner=rss and emc=rss
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