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发帖数: 3803 | 1 Under this dumb President Crisis, oil drill rig explodes again and again.
Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico; 2 people missing, 4 rushed to hospital
U.S. Coast Guard officer Ryan Tippets speaks with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts
about the oil platform explosion off the coast of Louisiana.
By Miguel Llanos and Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News
Two people were missing and four people were airlifted to a hospital Friday
after an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico some 17 miles southeast of
Grand Isle, La., the U.S. Coast Guard told NBC News.
Rescue crews were searching the waters for the two. Officials did not
immediately release the names of the missing or the injured.
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The fire was later extinguished and 28 people had been aboard the rig, the
Coast Guard said.
It was not known if the fire had caused a spill.
The platform is a production platform, unlike BP's Macondo exploratory well
in mile-deep water that blew out in 2010. That disaster led to an explosion
that killed 11 workers and caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S.
history.
The owner of the platform is Houston-based Black Elk Energy. On its website,
the company stated that this month it was starting to drill the first of 23
new wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
Last Sunday, The Houston Chronicle named Black Elk Energy as one of the top
small businesses to work for in Houston. The oil and gas company ranked 41st
on the list of 150 best places to work based on employee surveys.
The new explosion came a day after BP settled criminal charges in the
Macondo disaster by agreeing to pay $4.5 billion in penalties. It still
faces up to $20 billion in civil fines. |
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