Maritime News

A natural gas platform has sunk off the coast of Venezuela.

 
Ninety-five gas platform workers were safely from the Aban Pearl platform before the semi-submersible drilling rig sank into the Caribbean Sea.

 
The platform is owned by an Indian company, Aban Offshore Ltd. The drilling rig had been listing, but the cause of the sinking is still unknown. The Aban Pearl had been under contract to a company owned by the Venezuelan government drilling wells in the Mariscal Sucre offshore natural gas project.

 
The Venezuelan Energy Minister said that the accident poses no environmental threat.  

 
Oil and gas platform workers have dangerous jobs. The risks involved with offshore drilling have received national media  
attention since the explosion of Deepwater Horizon last month. After the explosion, the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig sank off the shore of Louisiana. That accident injured 17 workers.  Eleven workers are still missing and presumed dead. The sinking resulted in an on-going oil spill that continues to threaten fish and wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.  

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