of mexico. 102 miles south of vermilion bay, in the terre bonne bay region. 13 people on board the rig at the time of the explosion and fire, all accounted for, one with injuries. "wall street journal" reporter ben castleman is on the line with us. and ben, help us understand a little bit more about the company that owned this platform. what do you know about mariner energy? >> caller: well mariner energy is relatively small as far as offshore operators go. you get lots of these small companies that operate onshore relatively few of them offshore. interesting fact about mariner is it's in the process of being acquired by a somewhat larger company, apache corps. that deal has not been completed. and we'll see what impact this might have. >> what is this rig that we're talking about? i mean we've got information that it is, it has the capability of being a drilling