Officials Say 2 Drilling Rigs Adrift off La. Coast

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The Associated Press
Saturday, September 13, 2008; 7:26 PM
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Minerals Management Service says there are two confirmed reports of drilling rigs adrift in the central Gulf of Mexico.

Spokeswoman Eileen Angelico said Saturday the rigs are about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. Then-Hurricane Ike landed near the nation's biggest complex of refineries and petrochemical plants.

She says her agency, industry experts and the Coast Guard are monitoring the paths of the rigs.

Regional director Lars Herbst says the rigs have been relatively stationary for several hours. He says they expect tugs to approach to secure the rigs when sea conditions allow.

The Department of Energy says 13 Texas refineries had been shut down because of Ike. In Louisiana, refineries were just coming back online after Hurricane Gustav.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302108.html

[MadMaddie]

1. This is bad news

[billyoc]

2. The tugs will tow them back into place and they'll be running again in no time.

Not very high on the bad news scale. :hi:

[MadMaddie]

5. Hope you are right.!

;)

[liberalmuse]

3. This is much worse than they're letting on.

I saw pictures of some of the devastation in Galveston, and if people stayed behind, there is no way many survived. :(

[lutherj]

4. I haven't been able to find any first hand reporting, let alone pictures,

coming from Galveston. Where did you find the pictures? I guess I'm not looking in the right place. But I think you're right, they're suppressing coverage of Galveston for political reasons. It could easily be Katrina all over again down there and we won't know anything about it until it comes out in the alternative press.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. look here

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&ncl=1245251390