Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has started drilling operations on its Mugnetind exploration well located offshore Norway, using a Maersk Drilling-owned jack-up rig.
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once the fire is out we ll go out and determine the cause of the fire. >> eric: casey stiegel live with the details. any indication what may have caused this explosion? >> we have a little better idea. officials believe there were some type of cleaning chemicals on the surface of that massive offshore rig that somehow ignited and caught fire. but now that the sun is up the investigators are back out on the scene this morning to get a better idea of what happened collecting evidence and looking for clues. the rig out in the lake north of new orleans. it is used for storing oil until it is ready to be transferred back to land so there was no active drilling on site. witnesses report the loud explosion just after 7:00 p.m. it took a few minutes to realize what on earth had happened.
fighter jets to the military. deciding it wouldn t be appropriate to move forward with the delivery given everything going on with egypt right now. democratically elected mohamed morsi was thrown out of office after violent protests. there is concern among allies in that region the move will be seen as indirect support for morsi s party, the muslim brotherhood and concern there will be more violence. breaking news this time from the gulf coast where a drilling rig is on fire. the well partially collapsed tod today. it caught fire following a blowout that led to the evacuation of 44 workers. this is happening on the hercules offshore rig about 55 miles off the louisiana coast. live from miami with more. hi, steve. >> shannon, this is a natural gas rig and it began to burn about 11:00 last night. that fire is still going, the number one priority for coast
lieberman is an independent who often votes with democrats and he said moments ago he also want dead know what rules govern off duty agents on assignment, and that was the status of a dozen secret service agents and officers who met with prostitutes ahead of president obama s visit this month. six have been ousted and another dozen have also in the military have been implicated. >> former b.p. worker now faces the first criminal charges, the oil spill in the gulf of mexico two years ago. you will recall the explosion at the offshore rig killed 11 people, injured more than a dozen others and unleashed 200 million gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico. it is cleaned up and ready like the commercials say? no. absolutely emphatically, it is not all fixed. it forced the feds to close thousands of square miles of the gulf of mexico, severely hurting
interest, about jobs, and i know i am supposed to peak your interest. but i have to do this as a late add instead, okay? there s an article just posted by the wall street journal. i am quite sure the reason they have given it the date line of april 2nd, even though today is april 1st, no one would believe this if i said this was posted on april 1st. nobody would believe this is true. look at this. transocean sites safety in bonuses. transocean limited had its, quote, best year in safety performance, despite the explosion of its deepwater horizon rig that left 11 dead and oil gushing into gulf of mexico. the world s largest offshore rig company said in securities filing friday. transocean filed paperwork today on april fool s day, informing regulators that they are paying their executives big bonuses for their good safety year in 2010. in 2010, the year the transocean
law would limit what bp has to pay the families. to their wra great frustration, they are now caught up in the political swamp of washington. that s why they decided to speak out today. >> roy was a fine son. >> five times, grief stricken families have come to washington to lobby for what they call simple justice. >> and we just want to be treated fairly. >> we are doing as best we can. >> courtney camp has two young daughters. >> we talk about daddy every day and at night we will pick out a star for him. >> because the work ers died on the water, on an offshore rig, a marry time law says that families are entitled only to lost future wages minus taxes and personal expenses. that is far less than a comparable accident on land.
reviewing theed ed adequacy of current version of the spill plan. bp officials say they re commit to taking every safety precaution to prevent a blowout. they say they re minimizing their environmental footprint in that area of alaska. bp officials tell us they re going to start extracting oil from that well early next year. >> i m not a technical expert on any of this stuff, but why would bp decide to drill horizontally from just above the well site? >> a lot depends on the climate. ice flows in that region and can damage an offshore rig. if you have drilling from on island, you don t have to worry about pulling your rig back to shore. you have a longer drilling season and you can continuously drill in the wintertime and you don t have to keep pulling your rig back and send it out again. it saves money if you don t have to do that. they re saving a lot of money by just drilling from that island continuously. >> okay. brian, thank you so much.
regulation. republicans afraid of too much intervention, democrats want more. if the 5:00 vote doesn t go down, they don t get it. they will say the gop stands with wall street. tomorrow, guess who is p up here, goldman sachs testifying before the senate. you ll see democrats saying not ensemble is gop with wall street they are going to go aggressively after goldman tomorrow. it s going to be a wall street beatdown, shall we say, in the next few days. >> no kidding, with all the e-mails out as well. washington post poll finds two-thirds of american support stricter regulations. we ll see what happens, thank you. >> take care. >> the leak on the offshore rig in new mexico. crews using sub marines trying to stop the leak. it s a mile below the coast off the louisiana coast. the drilling platform is leaking an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil today, 11 workers missing and assumed dead following haass
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