REMINDER: Katrina oil spills may be among worst on record (113 offshore platforms destroyed)

[Ian David]

REMINDER: Katrina oil spills may be among worst on record (113 offshore platforms destroyed)
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[tridim]

1. Didn't McPain say just the other day that all the offshore rigs survived Katrina?

[Ian David]

2. You mean these?

Runaway oil rig smashes into bridge
August 30, 2005 - 10:05AM

The rig tore free of its moorings as Hurricane Katrina lashed the Alabama coast before surging downriver and smashing into the suspension bridge.
Photo: AFP

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http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/runaway-oil-rig-smashes-into-bridge/2005/08/30/1125302539428.html







This oil rig beached just off of Dauphin Island, Alabama, last month after Hurricane Katrina brought the enormous structure a few hundred metres from shore.
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Both the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard and Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service are coordinating efforts with BP and other agencies on the ongoing operations to right the listing Thunder Horse semisubmersible platform. Thunder Horse is located 150 miles southeast of New Orleans, in Mississippi Canyon Block.
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There are 20 oil rigs which are missing from the Gulf of Mexico and at least one oil pipeline, where a rig was located that has ruptured and is on fire.

Firefighters are not even going to try to put it out, as they say the fire will eventualy burn out, but noone knows what happened to the oil rigs.


Two of the Louisiana tanker terminals hit by the hurricane, Port Fourchon (shown below) and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, both handled more than 20 percent of all the crude oil imported into the United States.


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