Gulf oil platform explodes, burning off La. coast

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Thu, 09/02/2010 - 09:37

An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.

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