{"id":540420,"date":"2010-04-22T19:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/04\/22\/oil-rig-explosion-potential-for-major-spill\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:01:31","slug":"oil-rig-explosion-potential-for-%e2%80%9cmajor%e2%80%9d-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/540420","title":{"rendered":"Oil Rig Explosion: Potential for \u201cMajor\u201d Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. Coast Guard continues to search for 11 workers missing in an oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana, concern is widening about the potential for a &#8220;major&#8221; spill because of the explosion. BP and the Coast Guard are moving assets in to help combat a possible spill. At a news conference this afternoon, officials talked about a one mile by five mile &#8220;sheen&#8221; that&#8217;s on the water now, the result of the explosions on the rig. The rig itself has slipped underwater. There&#8217;s a remotely operated vehicle that&#8217;s underwater checking for damage. Two pipelines in the area were closed as a precaution. The Deepwater Horizon sat 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. <\/p>\n<p>Although the search continues for the 11 missing workers, officials say they have reports from survivors that the missing may have been near the site of the explosion and may not have been able to evacuate. Published reports say workers on the rig only had 5-10 minutes to escape. The survivors, about 115 of them, are safe and have been reunited with their families. The Coast Guard has seached about 2000 square miles looking for the missing.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/l_3264_2448_79BF58B0-A55C-4349-9DDD-78E18F041BCF.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/l_3264_2448_79BF58B0-A55C-4349-9DDD-78E18F041BCF.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. Coast Guard continues to search for 11 workers missing in an oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana, concern is widening about the potential for a &#8220;major&#8221; spill because of the explosion. BP and the Coast Guard are moving assets in to help combat a possible spill. At a news conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}