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Recent Updates for Unified Command for the BP Oil Spill | Deepwater Horizon Response

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Recent Updates for Unified Command for the BP Oil Spill | Deepwater Horizon Response

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NEW ORLEANS An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing. Most of the 126 workers on the rig Deepwater Horizon were believed to have escaped safely after the explosion about 10 pm Tuesday, Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike O’Berry said. The rig, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana’s tip, was still burning Wednesday morning and was listing about 10 degrees. There was no estimate of when the flames might be out. Helicopters and boats searched the Gulf of Mexico for any sign of the workers who had not been accounted for. “We’re hoping everyone’s in a life raft,” O’Berry said. The Coast Guard said Wednesday that seven workers had been critically injured. Later in the day, West Jefferson Hospital in suburban New Orleans said it treated four people, three of whom had been released. The University of South Alabama Medical Center said it was treating one person in its burn unit and evaluating five others. O’Berry said many workers who escaped were being brought to land on a work boat expected to arrive Wednesday evening. When the explosion happened, the rig was drilling but was not in production, according to Greg Panagos, spokesman for its owner, Transocean Ltd. in Houston. The rig was under contract to BP PLC. BP spokesman Darren Beaudo said all BP personnel were safe but he didn’t know how many BP workers had been on the …

Vujasinovic & Beckcom PLLC, Board Certified Houston, Texas Maritime Accident Attorneys representing Oil Rig Workers, (877) 724-7800, www.MaritimeAccidentAttorney.comAfter Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible offshore rig exploded on April 21, 2010, countless lawyer websites and internet advertisements popped up all over the Internet.  Much of this advertising suggests injured oil rig workers and their families must “immediately” hire a lawyer, or else their cases will somehow be lost.  Unfortunately, this is not the case.  In fact, offshore rig workers and their families who are victims of the Transocean Offshore Rig Explosion will be best served by taking their time in hiring an attorney.Interview a lot of lawyers.  Ask them all a lot of questions.  Ask if they are Board Certified.  How many offshore injury cases have they handled?  What is their track record in offshore injury cases?  And find out whether their track record documented.Most importantly, take your time.  Nothing bad will happen to any of these cases if lawyers are not hired “as soon as possible.”  After you have interviewed at least several maritime law firms, choose the lawyer who you believe will do the best job on your case and who you feel most comfortable with.For more helpful information to victims of the Transocean Rig Blowout, please visit

BP’s chairman revealed Friday that the company’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, would be handing oversight of drilling operations in the Gulf to another BP official. This comes after a heavily-criticized appearance before a Congressional hearing Thursday on the disastrous oil spill. The oil company’s chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg told Sky News that the embattled CEO is to have a changed role in dealing with the oil spill, according to a report on the British publication’s website. “He is now handing over the operation to Bob Dudley,” Svanberg to Sky News. Dudley has been the managing director of the oil giant since 2009. More: This comes after a contentious hearing Thursday in which Hayward appeared less-than forthcoming to lawmakers probing the CEO for answers on the nation’s most devastating ecological disaster. Testifying as oil still surged into the Gulf of Mexico and coated ever more coastal land and marshes, Hayward declared during Thursday’s hearing, “I am so devastated with this accident,” “deeply sorry” and “so distraught.” Yet the oil man disclaimed knowledge of any of the myriad problems on and under the Deepwater Horizon rig before the deadly explosion, telling a congressional hearing he had only heard about the well earlier in April, the month of the accident, when the BP drilling team told him it had found oil. “With respect, sir, we drill hundreds of wells a year around the world,” Hayward told Republican Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas. “Yes, I know …

Several rehabilitated brown pelicans and 1 Forrester tern were transported from Louisiana to the Aransas National Wildife Refuge near Rockport. The birds were banded and released. So far there are no known direct impacts of the oil spill on the Texas coast. For more on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, see www.tpwd.state.tx.us
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