#GulfSpillAgain Natural gas is flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from an oil and natural gas production platform off the coast of #PlaqueminesParish, @CNBC: BREAKING: Energy Resource Technology crew evacuated from well in Gulf of Mexico; Coast Guard responding to loss of well control." [link to noladefender] Natural gas is flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from an oil and natural gas production platform off the coast of Plaquemines Parish, where the U.S. Coast Guard says a crew lost control of a well on Tuesday. Crew was safely evacuated after the well was unable to be brought back under control, according to the Coast Guard. The well, located 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, is owned #EnergyResourceTechnology Gulf of Mexico LLC, who reported the incident. Workers were looking to temporary plug the well when they lost control of the well, according to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard could not confirm how many workers were evacuated. UPDATE: 5 Workers Evacuated, Old Tubing Blamed The crew were working to shut-in the well when they noticed natural gas in the water, according to a statement released Tuesday by ERT owners Talos Energy. The company suspects old tubing was to blame for the well, which was not producing at the time of the accident. ERT evacuated five workers in all from the platform, according to the statement. The company expects the well to be shut-in within 24 hours, and has contracted with Wild Well Control to stanch the flow, according to the statement. The well lies in a field first developed in the 1970s, and last produced in 1998, according to Talos. "We were plugging and abandoning the well as part of our active idle iron removal program in coordination with the BSEE, The cause of the event has yet to be determined, the Coast Guard said. Just in time for hurricane season ! noladefender/content/coast-g45uard-c67rew-loses-control-natural-gas-well-sheen-gulf Why is the national news not covering this? Article 8: The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. That is from the treaty signed at the end of the American revolutionary war...the treaty of Paris 1783. Standard oil went from a monopoly to a cartel. BP has all the sparsely populated areas and all the most populated oil guzzling areas belong to the Rockefellers. Most of the money being used to fund the environmentalists comes from the tax free trusts like the Rockefeller foundation. ezralevant/2013/03/rockefeller-vs-canada-us-billi.html Rockefeller vs. Canada: U.S. billionaires pour millions into anti-oilsands shell organizations torontosun/2013/03/25/rockefeller-vs-canada-us-billionaires-pour-millions-into-anti-oilsands-shell-organizations
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