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Gas that might be escaping in advance of the oil moving forward. having said all of that we were producing part of the time yesterday and part of the time we were taking down the systems but in spite of all of that we were still able to produce 12,843 barrels, a combination of what was flared from the q4000, which was about a little over 5000 barrels, and the helix producer, which was able to produce 7680 barrels. we are very pleased. this is the first time a floating production unit has been em...

Right now, the conventional thinking is it probably will ram straight into portions of mexico or texas. but they are hoping and praying that it will be to the south of the spill. meanwhile, real quickly, lets take a look at whats going on in the 48 connected states. and we do have some widely scattered showers through portions of texas at this hour. moving through the panhandle of florida as well. dry in the northern plains. a little humid up through portions of the northeast today. those shower...

Hole theyve drilled and the drilling platform goes away. then a whole new platform, a whole different platform actually comes in, uncorks the hole and gets the oil out of the well. two different types of rigs. two different processes. theres drilling and then theres production. drilling done with a drilling rig, production done with a production rig. the production platform pumps the oil back to shore through all of the green pipe lines you see there on the map. those are the green lines. again,...

It was drilling for oil. there are two different things that happen on platforms in the gulf. you have a rig like the deepwater horizon that drills for oil. once its done drilling, they essentially put a cork in the hole for lack of a less descriptive phrase. they essentially stop up the hole theyve drilled and the drilling platform goes away. then a whole new platform, a whole different platform actually comes in, uncorks the hole and gets the oil out of the well. two different types of rigs. t...

Prevent on the seafloor back to the rig. >> how does this compare to the fixed rigs that clearly cannot go as far down? >> the deepest water depth for a fixed production platform like this is 1350 feet and most of them are 200 feet or less. >> the deepwater horizon obviously sank and so its down about, what, 5,000 feet from surface to floor. anything salvageable from that rig? >> probably not. it will probably be left on the seafloor. >> so, almost an artificial reef. >> probably, yeah, it wont ...

Production platform on vermilion block 380. this is about 100 miles off the louisiana coast in water depths of about 320 feet. there were 13 crew members. and all 13 crew members evacuated and have been accounted for. no injuries have been reported. in an initial flyover by company personnel over the site, there was, there was no hydro carbon spill that was reported. and mariner is working with authorities in response to this incident. we dont know what cassed it yet and there will be an investi...

With a lot of air. well show you whats behind this secret inflatable arsenal. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we begin with the breaking news. an oil and gas production platform caught fire in the gulf of mexico today about 100 miles off the coast of louisiana. mariner energy, the company that owns the platform, says the fire began at one of seven active wells connected to the rig. 13 workers were forced overboard, but the coast guard says no one was hurt. the coast guard repor...

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Imagine they say they dont want to do any more damage that would further make this situation worse. we can see thad allen appearing there now and we mentioned very close to beginning this briefing here, wolf. >> stand by, ed. there is thad allen. he is about to go to the microphone there, the retired u.s. coast guard, national incident commander. he is going to update us right now on what is going on and when you see the live pictures of that cap you can still see the oil spewing from the top of...