1 Day Before Its Gulf Oil Rig Exploded-Mariner Energy: Obama ‘Is Trying To Break Us’ With Moratorium

One Day Before Its Gulf Oil Rig Exploded, Mariner Energy Said Obama ‘Is Trying To Break Us’ With Moratorium

The U.S. Coast Guard said this morning that a natural gas and oil drilling platform exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana. A Coast Guard spokesperson said the platform, Vermilion Oil Rig 360, is an oil and gas platform in 2,500 feet of water and is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy. It is not currently producing oil or gas. Apache Corp. recently purchased Mariner in a multi-billion dollar deal.

Just yesterday, however, the Financial Times reported that employees from Apache and Mariner, along with thousands of oil industry workers, rallied in Houston to protest the Obama administration’s offshore drilling moratorium that was designed as a safety precaution after BP’s disastrous Gulf oil spill. A Mariner Energy employee chastised the Obama administration for its drilling moratorium, which would not have affected the rig that exploded today:

***** Companies ranging from Chevron to Apache bussed in up to 5,000 employees to the Houston convention centre to underline to Washington the industry’s contribution to the country. <...>

“I have been in the oil and gas industry for 40 years, and this administration is trying to break us,” said Barbara Dianne Hagood, senior landman for Mariner Energy, a small company. “The moratorium they imposed is going to be a financial disaster for the gulf coast, gulf coast employees and gulf coast residents.”

MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/02/mariner-oil-obama/
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02/rescue-efforts-underway-after-oil-rig-accident-in-gulf/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

And somehow they'll try to make it Obama's fault.

:mad:

The fat cat oil companies are a bunch of friggin' whiners. Their hold on the american public is coming to an end and they can't handle it.

Only rigs in depths 5000 feet or more were effected. Out of the four thousand rigs in the gulf only thirty were under moratorium.

Good to know all the details.

telling us that a safety stand down, which is what this is, is not needed.

MORANS!!!!!

And yes I know how much the economy depends on that (local economy), methinks it is time to DIVERSIFY.

BP's people taught me that if there is a problem, the job stops and the problem is resolved before it goes back to work.

Lying SOBS. I hope Obama is getting wise. This is a 'Teaching Moment' eh?

they should close down their PR department and use the funds to operate their rigs safely.

Deal was to close 3rd quarter of this year.


From Wiki:

**2010 Apache announces planned merger with Mariner Energy for $2.7 billion.

**2010 Apache announces that it was purchasing major assets from BP in Texas, southeast New Mexico,
western Canada,and Egypt for a total sum of $7 billion, to pay for BP's response to the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.


this ought to be interesting.

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i'd like to see someone get a statement from her after the helicopters fish her out of the water (if she's lucky).

insurance?