Published: Sunday November 1, 2009 MYT 6:03:00 PM
Oil rig in Timor Sea catches on fire
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP): A fire has started on an oil rig that has been leaking into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks.
Rig operator PTTEP Australasia said in a statement Sunday that no one had been injured and nonessential workers were being evacuated after the fire broke out on the West Atlas rig and Montara wellhead platform.
The fire started while workers made another attempt to plug the hole that has been leaking an estimated 400 barrels of oil a day since Aug. 21.
The oil slick from the rig, about 150 miles (250 kilometers) off Australia's northwest coast, now stretches across thousands of miles (kilometers) of remote ocean.
Indonesia said this week that thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near its coastline.
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