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2010 Shane Roshto 04-20-2010; Amite County, Liberty
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Blazing Oil Rig Sinks in Gulf of Mexico, 11 Missing Feared Dead

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 22, 2010 (ENS) - An oil rig that exploded Tuesday night and burned for 36 hours sank in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, leaving responders with a potentially enormous oil spill on their hands.

The Deepwater Horizon, owned by the Swiss company Transocean Ltd. and contracted by BP Exploration & Production, Inc., had drilled an exploratory well down to its limit of 18,000 feet. The well was being closed when the incident occurred at 10 pm Tuesday local time, about 41 miles offshore Louisiana and 130 miles southeast of New Orleans.


Response vessels spray water on the blazing Deepwater Horizon just before it sinks. (Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)
The well is still unplugged and could potentially release up to 8,000 barrels of crude oil per day, said Coast Guard officials. In addition, over a million gallons of #2 fuel oil or marine diesel fuel was reported to be onboard the rig when it went down.
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Transocean said in a statement, "The combined response team was not able to stem the flow of hydrocarbons prior to the rig sinking, and we are working closely with BP Exploration & Production, Inc. and the U.S. Coast Guard to determine the impact from the sinking of the rig and the plans going forward."

"The U.S. Coast Guard has plans in place to mitigate any environmental impact from this situation," the company said.

Meanwhile, hope is fading that 11 crewmembers who are still missing will be found alive. Coast Guard officials said today that 17 search sorties have been completed by air and by boat and approximately 1,940 square miles have been searched.

The Coast Guard today expanded its search area to include 3,000 square miles around where the platform's location. But the search is expected to be called off sometime on Friday.

Of the 126 crewmembers on board the rig when it exploded, the Coast Guard reports that 115 crewmembers have been accounted for. Seventeen crewmembers were medevaced from the scene, seven of them with critical injuries.

Family members of one missing worker, Shane Roshto of Amite County, Mississippi, filed a lawsuit in New Orleans today, accusing the rig's owner of negligence. The suit names Transocean Ltd. and BP Exploration & Production. According to court documents filed in the case, Roshto was thrown overboard in the explosion and is feared dead.


Oil sheen covers the Gulf of Mexico where the Deepwater Horizon sank. (Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)
Transocean Vice President Adrian Rose said today that crew members who survived Tuesday's explosion indicated the missing men may have been near the blast and unable to escape.

The National Response Team has been activated and Unified and Area Commands have been established near New Orleans to coordinate search and rescue operations and oil spill response efforts. Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes arrived yesterday to assist with coordination and response.

BP today activated an extensive oil spill response, assisting Transocean in an assessment of the well and subsea blow out preventer with remotely operated vehicles.

"We are determined to do everything in our power to contain this oil spill and resolve the situation as rapidly, safely and effectively as possible," said BP Group Chief Executive Tony Hayward.

Hayward said BP has a plan for the drilling of a relief well, if required. A nearby drilling rig available to begin activity immediately will be used to drill the relief well.

BP has mobilized 32 spill response vessels including a large storage barge; skimming capacity of more than 171,000 barrels per day, with more available if needed; plus offshore storage capacity of 122,000 barrels and additional 175,000 barrels available and on standby.

BP says it has supplies of more than 100,000 gallons of chemical dispersants and four aircraft ready to spray dispersant to the spill, and the pre-approval of the US Coast Guard to use them.

The company has deployed 500,000 feet of boom, increasing to 1,000,000 feet of boom by day's end.

BP has implemented pre-planned forecasting of 48-hour spill trajectory, which indicates spilled oil will remain well offshore during that period; and has pre-planned the staging of resources for protection of environmentally sensitive areas
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Saturday, Apr 24, 2010 Posted on Fri, Apr. 23, 2010
Search suspended for 11 oil-rig workers
By DONNA MELTON
The Coast Guard on Friday night suspended its search for 11 workers missing since Tuesday when the Transocean Deepwater Horizon mobile oil rig exploded and sank about 50 miles off the coast of Venice, La., as environmentalists brace for the floating slick’s impact.
Coast ferry boat Captain Louis Skrmetta said tourism and seafood industries could take a major hit if the spill from the sunken rig reaches the state’s beaches on the Coast and along the barrier islands.

Cynthia Sarthou, executive director of the Gulf Restoration Network, said she has increasing concerns about the unknown amount of oil and fuel potentially threatening marine life and eventually, the coastlines and islands from Louisiana to Alabama.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s public affairs specialist, John Ewald, confirmed Friday afternoon the well’s head valve had been shut and was no longer leaking.

The rig burned for nearly two days until it sank Thursday morning. Officials initially feared as much as 336,000 gallons of crude oil a day could have leaked from the drill site before it was capped. About 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel that was on the rig may have burned off in the fire.

A sheen appeared to cover an area about 2 miles wide and 8 miles long Friday afternoon, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Ashley Butler.

The NOAA Office of Response and Restoration’s Web site says a slick is formed when oil spreads out rapidly across the water. As it continues to spread, it becomes a thinner, rainbow-like layer called a sheen.

Officials have not determined the cause of the explosion, or how much oil or fuel remains in the ocean.

Skrmetta said whatever the amount, it’s too much.

“One has to assume (it’s) enough to cause major damage to the Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana islands and marshes if the winds and currents push the material as far north as predicted,” he said. “Even if cleanup crews take care of most of the surface material, we still have the threat of oil that sunk to the bottom returning to the surface at some point in the form of tar balls that will almost certainly wash up on our beaches for months, possibly years, to come.”

BP PLC, which leased the rig and is taking the lead in the cleanup, said it has activated an extensive oil-spill response, including using remotely operated vehicles to assess the well, and 32 vessels to mop up the spill.

Sarthou said her agency is waiting, watching and hoping for a resolution to a lot of unanswered questions.

“How much contamination has occurred as a result of this event, in terms of oil sunk to the bottom, diesel fuel that has been released, air pollution and the effect of the sinking of this rig,” she said. “There are a lot of unknowns and we won’t know for a while what long-term implications this has.”
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The father of one of the 11 oil rig workers missing in an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico says he doesn't blame the Coast Guard for calling off the search.

Karl Kleppinger says that given the magnitude of Tuesday's explosion and the fire, he doesn't see how rescuers would be able to find anything.

A lawyer for the family of missing worker Shane Roshto, says Roshto's wife has "pretty much accepted the fact that her husband is not coming back." He says Natalie Roshto has gone back home to Mississippi.

The 11 missing workers came from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The Coast Guard has not released their names
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Memorial held for rig blast victims
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JACKSON — Eleven men who died in the April 20 oil-rig explosion were honored Tuesday at a somber memorial service with tributes from country music stars and drilling company executives.

Aaron Dale Burkeen, a 37-year-old man from Philadelphia was one of the men who died. His family said they were moved by the event, attended by hundreds.

“It was truly touching. There will never be complete closure because we don’t have the body to see,” said Burkeen’s uncle, Aaron Bryan, for whom he was named. “I think it helps to see the other families.”

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Most attendees left in a steady rain without talking to reporters. Transocean Ltd., owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, organized the memorial, held under tight security at the Jackson Convention Complex. Police on motorcycles and in cruisers patrolled the block. Security guarded entrances.

“This is the one of the most difficult days for many of us here. But for the families of our 11 lost colleagues, this is just another of many difficult days,” Transocean CEO Steven Newman said.

Country music group Diamond Rio performed “I Believe,” “One More Day” and “In God We Trust.”

Singer Trace Adkins spoke to the service by video link, describing how he’d worked on Gulf oil rigs before making it big as a singer.

“It was hard work, it was dangerous work, but nobody expects it to end like this,” Adkins said.

It was impossible to judge the reactions of those in attendance. Reporters weren’t allowed into the memorial but were ushered into a large room where the service was broadcast on closed-circuit television.

Before the memorial began, an image on the screen showed 11 bronze-colored hard hats placed in a semicircle around a white cross. A large picture of the sun setting over calm waters was in the background.

A bell rang 11 times, once for each man lost when a blowout caused the massive explosion and fire that ultimately sank the rig.

Newman and Keelan Adamson, Transocean’s North American Divison director, presented the families with the hard hats.

The closed-circuit feed cut to pictures of the men while the presentation was made, so the exchange was not visible.



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