Platform Off Louisiana's Coast Leaking Oil Into the Gulf

[Bosonic]

Source: WPMI

GULF OF MEXICO (WPMI) U.S. Coast Guard officials say a well is leaking oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials responded Tuesday to the Ship Shoal Block 225 Platform B, and natural gas and crude oil platform about 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, Louisiana.

The Coast Guard and BSEE received a report from Energy Resources Technology Gulf of Mexico LLC that an oil and natural gas production platform, owned by ERT, lost well control.

All platform personnel were safely evacuated.

Read more: http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Platform-Off-Louisianas-Coast-Leaking-Oil-Into/oTJj6Qx20Uqlx2RKq12Y4A.cspx

[think]

2. America needs to ban oil drilling in the gulf

They ruined it enough already.....

[juajen]

3. Yep, they've ruined it already. I guess they figure it would make a

nice holding tank for oil. **stards!

[davidpdx]

4. Change the name of the body of water to

The Gulf of Oil

[Zorro]

6. I recently flew across the Gulf off the Louisiana coast

and I was surprised by the number of offshore rigs. Seemed like hundreds.

[davidpdx]

7. The Gulf of Oil Rigs

It sounds like it has gotten bad.

[wordpix]

11. it's already known as the National Sacrifice Area

All that oil and gas goes to world markets and does NOT provide US with energy independence.

Many if not most of the rigs in the gulf are internationally owned/registered. Some of this is to avoid taxes and some is just a "come one, come all" laissez faire approach to regulations.

I attended a hearing in DC after the BP disaster and learned that the Coast Guard doesn't even know how many rigs are out there.

[wordpix]

12. more info from LA Times last night

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-natural-gas-leak-gulf-coast-20130709,0,6827008.story

"a rainbow sheen"

[MrNJ]

15. The problem is that we can't ban other countries from drilling there (n/t)

[think]

17. The US has no influence on how multi national corporations effect the US environment?

Just asking.

[adirondacker]

20. I'm pretty sure the multinationals have near total control of US politicians by now. nt

[MrNJ]

21. Multinational - who knows.

Chinese or Russian or other national - absolutely not.

[Blue Owl]

5. Exploding tankers. Leaking pipelines. Ruptured deep sea rigs.

Yet oil itself is never blamed as "the problem."

[Nihil]

8. I like the way that the implication is that this is a rare occurrence.

> U.S. Coast Guard officials say a well is leaking oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

There are literally thousands of platforms in the Gulf and every one of them leaks
into the water. Some are trickles, some are floods, some are due to age and lack
of maintenance, some are due to storm damage but they all leak.

Yet another pathetic attempt to veneer over the global pollution being caused
by the fossil fuel industry and enabled by their lazy consumers.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. Offshore wind farms are such an eyesore. nt

[wordpix]

14. I know, aren't they?

[awoke_in_2003]

18. And there is nothing worse than...

a wind spill

(I was joking about the eyesore thing- I thought the sarcasm would come through without the smilie)

[wordpix]

10. thanks, Obama, for ensuring the oil corps can keep drilling within months of BP's disaster

Sorry, but I'm not longer an O fan.

Yes, he's better than a repuke president but he sides with the corporations and Big Oil way too much.

[wordpix]

13. info on Energy Resources Tech (owner of rig)

Houston-based company:

http://www.talosenergyllc.com/talos-completes-acquisition-of-energy-resource-technology/

Talos Completes Acquisition of Energy Resource Technology
Posted by Talos on Feb 6, 2013

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Talos Energy LLC, a privately held Houston-based oil and gas company, today announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Talos Production LLC, has completed its acquisition of Energy Resource Technology GOM, Inc. (“ERT”), the oil and gas subsidiary of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX) for $620 million. The ERT assets, located in the Gulf of Mexico, averaged 16,155 barrels of oil equivalent per day in December and are over 70% oil-weighted. ERT also recently announced the success of the Wang exploration well that encountered more than 100 feet of high quality net oil pay in the Phoenix Field, located in Green Canyon Block 237. Helix will also retain an overriding royalty interest in the Wang discovery and certain exploration prospects.

[wordpix]

16. links to several articles here - oil sheen is 4 miles wide by 3/4 mile long

sounds like a gusher

http://beforeitsnews.com/gulf-oil-spill/2013/07/new-gulf-of-mexico-oil-leak-sends-wti-spiking-2441222.html

[Quantess]

19. Sad. (no text)