A Coast Guard spokesperson said the platform, Vermilion Oil Rig 360, is an oil and gas platform in 2500 feet of water and is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy. It is not currently producing oil or gas.. The U.S. Coast Guard said this morning that a natural gas and oil drilling platform exploded 80 ...
An oil and gas production platform has exploded 102 miles off the central coast of Louisiana, with 13 people overboard, including one injured, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning. All 13 people have been accounted for,. U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Elizabeth Bordelon tells CNN there is a sheen at the site of the production platform ...
A containment cap that sucked some of the oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico offered a small sign of progress for a region that ... ...
After failing again to stem the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP scrambled Sunday to control the spill that the president's top energy ... ...
BP has failed in its latest attempt to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico with mud and cement, the company said Saturday. ...