Oil Rig Explosion
NEW ORLEANS (GaeaTimes.com)- On Thursday an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana caught fire and triggered fear of a repetition of the British Petroleum's Deep Horizon oil spill that had jeopardized the marine life and the lives of thousands of coastal area residents.
LOUISIANA (GaeaTimes.com) -- According to coast guard reports, an offshore oil platform under Mariner Energy has exploded in Gulf of Mexico today.
NEW ORLEANS - Officials say four workers critically injured in an oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast are doing much better.
NEW ORLEANS - Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art oil rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already convinced them that changes were needed.
NEW ORLEANS - Eleven workers were missing after an oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast.
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