A production site that offshore oil sank Thursday off the coast of Louisiana after a fire during a day and a half, killing 11 victims and generating an oil slick that governments strive to reduce. It was the day of the planet and the American president spoke of the effectiveness of its green.

The same day, an offshore oil site on which hundreds of people were working, was on fire near the U.S. coast. he subsequently vanished Friday, the eve of the weekend, in the morning, and generated a oilspill. Barack obama said that this disaster was the moment his' number one priority. It is an explosion on the evening of Tuesday, causing a fire, a hundred people were evacuated, including 17 by helicopter then crippled conduient to hospitals in the area of New Orleans. The site operator, the company Transocean, based in Zug, Switzerland, said that statements by the group of survivors led us to believe that the eleven victims have been unable to flee the base flame.

For the moment there is no indication that the platform struck the seabed, 1,500 meters deep, the amount of black gold has run away from its compartments. Aircraft weighted by appropriate substances are operational, to control and manage the oil leak, the extent of 8000 meters and suceptible would become after the Coast Guard, a major oil slick. A tiny remote-controlled submersible, used frequently in business, has been brought on site to determine the position of the platform, sinking more than 4,000 meters below the ocean floor.