In a public statement, the company said an initial flyover did not show any oil.Photos from the scene showed at least five ships wholesale nike shox floating near the platform. Three of them were shooting great plumes of water onto the machinery. Light smoke could be seen drifting across the deep blue waters of the gulf.By late afternoon, the fire on the platform was out.The platform is in about 340 feet of water and about 100 miles south of Louisiana's Vermilion Bay. Its location is considered shallow water, much less.

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 than the approximately 5,000 feet where BP's well spewed oil and gas for three months after the April rig explosion that killed 11 workers.Responding to any oil spill in shallow water would wholesale handbags be much easier than in deep water, where crews depend on remote-operated vehicles to access equipment on the sea floor.A Homeland Security update obtained by The Associated Press said the platform was producing 58,800 gallons of oil and 900,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The platform can store 4,200 gallons of oil.

Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez are the reported frontrunners. The show returns in January.An oil platform exploded and burned off the wholesale nike shox Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.The Coast Guard initially reported that an oil sheen a mile long and 100 feet wide had begun to spread from the site of the blast, about 200 miles west of the source of BP's massive spill. But hours later, Coast Guard Cmdr.

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Cheri Ben-Iesau said crews were unable to find any spill.The company that owns the platform, Houston-based Mariner Energy, did not know what caused the explosion.Mariner officials wholesale nike air max said there were seven active production wells on the platform, and they were shut down shortly before the fire broke out.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the company told him the fire began in 100 barrels of light oil condensate, but officials did not know yet what sparked the flames.The Coast Guard said Mariner Energy reported the oil sheen.