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Coast Guard backs Off Report Of Oil Sheen From Gulf Platform

09/02/2010 7:34 pm 0 comments

Source: USA Today

Update at 5:14 p.m. ET: A Mariner Energy spokesman tells Reuters, “It wasn’t a blowout, it’s not an explosion.”

The fire, which was extinguished at 3 p.m. CT, “appears to have been in or near the living quarters on the upper deck” of the two-story platform, said spkesman Patrick Cassidy. Damage was confined to the upper deck, and the platform is still standing.

Update at 4:56 p.m. ET: The Coast Guard now says it is unable to confirm its earlier report that a mile-long oil sheen was spreading from the platform, about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, the Associated Press reports. The platform fire has been extinguished, however.

Coast Guard Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau said that platform owner Mariner Energy, which initially reported the sheen, has said in a statement that an initial flyover didn’t find an oil spill.

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