# Oil Rig Fire
**URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/oil-rig-fire/8976
**Category:** Marine Incidents
**Created:** [November 16, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/oil-rig-fire/8976 "2012-11-16T08:44:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ATB2N2](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ATB2N2)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/oil-rig-fire/8976/1 "2012-11-16T08:44:12Z")
> **[Two Missing in Gulf Oil Rig Blast](https://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=17739184)**
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> Ships and helicopters are searching for two oil rig workers who disappeared when an explosion rocked a gulf oil rig off the coast of Louisiana and set it on fire, Coast Guard officials said.
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### Author:  [@Mikey](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Mikey)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2012, 8:49am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/oil-rig-fire/8976/2 "2012-11-16T08:49:03Z")
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The story has also been confirmed by the Associated Press:
> Coast Guard officials say an oil rig has exploded off the coast of Louisiana, sending four people to hospitals. Two are believed to be missing.
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> Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, did not immediately have information on the conditions of those taken to hospitals.
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> The rig, a production platform owned by Black Elk Energy, is about 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle, La.
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> Lally says two helicopters, an airplane and small boats were sent to the area on Friday. He did not know if the fire caused by the explosion had been put out yet.
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> The platform is a production platform, unlike the Deepwater Horizon rig, which was drilling an exploratory well in mile-deep water well to the east of Friday’s reported explosion.
[http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/coast-guard-fire-oil-rig-gulf-mexico-17739172#.UKZr7ml25pE](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/coast-guard-fire-oil-rig-gulf-mexico-17739172#.UKZr7ml25pE)
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### Author:  [@kluso](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/kluso)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/oil-rig-fire/8976/3 "2012-11-22T00:04:04Z")
yeah well thats why you do hot work certificate.