another rig blew.......
 

80 miles south of v-bay......info anyone????

Dammit!!!!

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Coas...102065593.html

Oh crap here we go! BUT HOPE ALL ARE OKAY

who's rig?

Obama must be loving this. Last I heard 12 of 13 crew are accounted for.

prayers to the men on that rig....

Everyone accounted for, thra from the USCG. 13 men in the water 13 men rescued. Only one injury.
As of now there is no leak, it was not a production rig according to the USCG.
Rig is on fire and 4 USCG boats are in route. Also 2 choppers from Lafayette for air support.

I'm guessing that since only 13 men were aboardd the rig it's a smaller rig???

Sounds like a production platform and not a rig if it's only 13 hands.

South tem 316
92 miles south of Houma

The rig is owned by Mariner and is in 450 feet of water.

yahoo was saying 2500 feet of water

liberal f'ers on yahoo are gonna eat this up...

It's VR-380 that blew, owned by Mariner Energy. It was not an active well.

We have a few Apache guys in our office right now, they just got word that everyone is ok and there is no leak.

fox said 12 found 1 missing?

"*" is there ?? :*****:

The guys here are saying everyone has been found but 1 is injured,

lol no he doesn't want to "conpare" salaries with these guys!

their conputer genuses ??

HERE IS A LIBERAL FROM YAHOO.com on the article on the explosion...


Jeez, oil companies suck. And sadly, the Republican Party has been bought by them (and the banking cartel, of course), so the odds of us ever getting off our oil addiction appear slim indeed. Might as well get used to the explosions and oil spills; Republicans aren't going to do anything about our oil addiction, else they either would have done it themselves already, or at least they wouldn't be blocking Obama on every single thing he tries to do to get us off our oil addiction (and thus stop funding BOTH sides of resource-driven wars and conflicts).

One of Fox's owners is a Saudi oil baron (who reams us on oil then funnels the money into building mosques all over our country). As long as Fox = Republicans, then our oil dependency is likely going nowhere. Enjoy your oil spills, Gulf Coast. And if you want many more, be SURE to vote Republican. The oil companies and the banking cartel are counting on you and they need your votes to continue their dominance of our country.

Just what we needed. Now the moratorium will never end.

It's in 340 ft of water... MSNBC is so dishonest! and it's a production platform.

Yep, I don't know where they get the 2,500 feet from that's been reported.

i'm watching this white house press briefing, bunch of fluff. i don't know why they even bother.

"i don't know, not sure, can't comment, etc..."

[QUOTE=SULPHITE;191221]HERE IS A LIBERAL FROM YAHOO.com on the article on the explosion...


Jeez, oil companies suck. And sadly, the Republican Party has been bought by them (and the banking cartel, of course), so the odds of us ever getting off our oil addiction appear slim indeed. Might as well get used to the explosions and oil spills; Republicans aren't going to do anything about our oil addiction, else they either would have done it themselves already, or at least they wouldn't be blocking Obama on every single thing he tries to do to get us off our oil addiction (and thus stop funding BOTH sides of resource-driven wars and conflicts).

One of Fox's owners is a Saudi oil baron (who reams us on oil then funnels the money into building mosques all over our country). As long as Fox = Republicans, then our oil dependency is likely going nowhere. Enjoy your oil spills, Gulf Coast. And if you want many more, be SURE to vote Republican. The oil companies and the banking cartel are counting on you and they need your votes to continue their dominance of our country.[/



Made my stomach turn.....its funny how the ones that sound so smart couldn't be more wrong.......

As a side note, it would be awesome if we had 2500 feet of water 80 out of vermilion bay... can we say tuna anyone...

Here is another...

"Someone put BP out of business they're destroying our environment with their incompetence!"

*** does BP have to do with this??

Yeah I know right... I was reading about it and was thinking they got the location wrong or added an extra 0 to the depth by accident

so what could have caused the explosion, was the platform processing gas?

450 ft sounds more realistic for a south timb block

libtards

Just what we needed,lets just hope and pray we dont get another oil leak.

Well is shut in......what's That mean?

Valves are closed. Not flowing.

Re
 

News is full of bs.... I'm listening to jindal talk now. 340 ft depth . No way it's 2500 ft deep in that area...
Mariner - platform owner - says that the platform is fed by 6 wells and 2 pipelines feed to land.
1400 barrels of oil per day on
average and 9 million cubic ft of natural gas.

Bn shut in means nothing is flowing to the platform....
This is not confirmed by USCG or state officials. That's came from mariner.

I work for Blue Stream Services. That's one of the new platforms Apache bought from Mariner.

The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. The site of the explosion is west of where BP's massive spill occurred. The Coast Guard said no one was killed Thursday in the explosion. All 13 people aboard the rig were found floating in the water in survival gear.

Platform was not producing so my guess they hade construction going on I use to have the field next door vern369 I think IOC runs

did they see a North Korean submarine any wheres near?

No, just a couple guys wearing obama shirts...

:redface:

Guess my wife will have to work a few more years!!!!!!!!!!!


Hope everyone is OK!!!!!!!!

Thank God every one of these guys will get to go home! As for oBUMa and his followers, well, I need to pee anyway!!!!! More for their propaganda campaign!

They need to take the long walk off the short pier!

On production platforms, there are fusible plugs, plugs that melt at different temperatures. These plugs are located every few feet on a stainless steel tubing line, located on or near any pump, control valve, manway or major flange, gas compressors, wellheads, anything that can possibly release gas or oil and cause a fire.
When these fusible plugs release the 30 lbs. of air in the tubing to the atmosphere, the Emergency Shutdown(ESD) system is activated and all automatic shutdown valves on the well head shut in within 45 seconds. After that, the hydraulic downhole valves shut within 2 minutes after the last Surface Safety Valve on the wellheads shut in. This secures all wells in case no one could activate the ESD manually.
This is not like a well being drilled, where the wellbore pressure is only held under control by the drilling fluids.
The fire burning must have been from fluids from a ruptured line, vessel or tank.
Production platforms have a lot more built in safety systems than a drilling or workover rig.
Also, there is an ESD valve on the boat landing, where they jumped into the water, that can be activate the ESD and a plastic tubing that can be broken by the workers or a boat hook from a boat to activate the ESD system from the boat landing.

All or any of these can and will prevent catastrophic failures, if they are not bypassed at the time of the incident.