Oil Platform in Gulf of Mexico Explodes

MYFOXNY.COM - The Coast Guard said there are no immediate signs of a spill from an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.

Rescue crews saved all 13 crew members from the water in the second such disaster in the Gulf in less than five months.

The Coast Guard initially reported an oil sheen a mile long and 100 feet wide had begun to spread from the site of the fire, about 200 miles west of the site of BP's massive spill. But officials said at a Thursday afternoon news conference that boats at the platform have not seen any oil sheen.

The platform owned by Mariner Energy is in about 2,500 feet of water, the Coast Guard said, and was not currently producing.

About 206 million gallons of oil from an undersea well spilled into the Gulf after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.