{"id":548204,"date":"2010-04-30T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coast-guard-second-rig-gulf-turnover-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:23:10","slug":"update-another-rig-has-turned-over-but-it-was-defunct-and-contained-no-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548204","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Another Rig Has Turned Over, But It Was Defunct And Contained NO Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oilSecond update<\/strong>: A spokesperson from the Coast Guard explained that a barge overturned while transporting a defunct rig to a scrap heap.<\/p>\n

The only oil at risk is the fuel contained in the barge — less than 200 gallons.<\/p>\n

Here’s what you need to know about the real disaster ><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Here’s the Coast Guard’s announcement:<\/a><\/p>\n

MORGAN CITY, La. — The Coast Guard is responding Friday to an overturned mobile inland drilling unit (MIDU) in the Charenton navigational canal south of Highway 90.<\/p>\n

The MIDU has a 20,000-gallon diesel fuel capacity, and while there is no current estimate on how much fuel was on board at the time of the incident, on-scene Coast Guard pollution investigators have determined that the rig is not leaking fuel at this time.  As a precaution, 500 feet of containment boom has been deployed around the rig, with an additional 500 feet arriving to provide a secondary string within the canal.<\/p>\n

The Coast Guard has established a safety zone 1,000 yards on either side of the incident, prohibiting vessel traffic from entering the area without permission from the Captain of the Port.  A salvage plan is currently being developed for Coast Guard approval. <\/p>\n

There are no reported injuries and the Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the incident. <\/p>\n

Original post: Hopefully this turns out to be a big nothing… But Reuters<\/a> is reporting that the Coast Guard says it’s responding to a second Louisiana overturned rig in the Charenton Navigational Channel.<\/p>\n

Will update as warranted\/learn more.<\/em><\/p>\n

Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n

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Second update: A spokesperson from the Coast Guard explained that a barge overturned while transporting a defunct rig to a scrap heap. The only oil at risk is the fuel contained in the barge — less than 200 gallons. Here’s what you need to know about the real disaster > Update: Here’s the Coast Guard’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6938,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548204","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\/6938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}