Houston-based Mariner Energy reports that the fire on board its production platform in the Gulf of Mexico has been extinguished.
Platform owner and operator Mariner had deployed three fire-fighting vessels to the site to extinguish the fire, which broke out this morning at Vermilion Block 380 approximately 102 miles offshore the central Louisiana coast.
All 13 workers on board the platform have been evacuated and safely accounted for with no injuries reported, Houston-based Mariner reported today. Automated shutoff equipment on the platform safely turned off the flow of oil and gas from the platform's seven producing wells before the fire occurred and the crew evacuated.