47 rescued from Gulf rig after natural gas blowout

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Natural gas flowed uncontrolled from a well off the Louisiana coast on Tuesday after a blowout that forced the evacuation of 47 workers aboard a drilling rig, authorities said.


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[pferrin]

Hope everyone will be ok. Such hard work for those folks.

 

[mysteriew]

Not again! How much spillage was there?

 

[LaLaw2000]

It was natural gas, not oil. I am much more worried about the guys on the rig than any 'spillage'. Natural gas is not a liquid. Those guys work so hard to bring us a commodity that most all of us use. I think it takes great courage to work on a rig like that. I had a brother on an oil rig who had to be helicoptered back to the mainland due to an injury, and a friend who is disabled forever from an injury on a platform. I salute them and pray that they are all okay.

moo