Another oil rig explosion in Gulf

Posted Sep 2, 2010 02:19:51 PM.

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The U-S Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.

The site is west of where BP’s massive spill occurred.

All 13 people on the rig were rescued.

Coast Guard officials say they were found floating in the water in survival gear.

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