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Article: WA: West Atlas oil rig faces fire danger
AAP General News (Australia);  August 23, 2009 ;     398 words ... ... 08-23-2009 WA: West Atlas oil rig faces fire danger ... 12 kilometres. The West Atlas rig, about 250km off ... operated by Thai-based PTTEP Australasia, the rig is now in ... platform ... and the West Atlas drilling rig is sitting ...

Article: WA: Vital equipment to battle spill delayed
AAP General News (Australia);  August 31, 2009 ;     517 words ... ... miles as it leaks from PTTEP Australasia's West Atlas oil rig. Oil, gas and ... statement late on Monday, PTTEP Australasia (PTTEP) said a chartered ... Authority. He said he expected PTTEP Australasia to be forthcoming with ...

Article: Fed: Oil spill off WA coast much larger than reported: Greens
AAP General News (Australia);  August 28, 2009 ;     409 words ... ... AMSA). After visiting the PTTEP Australasia West Atlas oil rig spill, Greens senator ... in Indonesia, left for the West Atlas oil rig at 4.45pm (AEST ... now expected to reach the West Atlas and commence drilling activities ...

Australia Oil Spill
AP Images;  November 1, 2009 ;     237 words ...In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, image provided by PTTEP Australasia the West Atlas oil rig is seen burning about 150 miles (250 kilometers ... 400 barrels of oil a day since Aug. 21. (AP Photo/PTTEP Australasia)

Article: WA: Spill growing, threatening engandered marine life: Greens
AAP General News (Australia);  August 30, 2009 ;     646 words ... ... Oil, gas and condensate has been leaking from PTTEP Australasia's West Atlas oil rig into the Timor Sea since August 21 ... spraying dispersants over the slick for a week. PTTEP Australasia has organised for a mobile offshore drilling ...

Article: WA: Drill operation more than halfway at oil spill site
AAP General News (Australia);  September 22, 2009 ;     222 words ... ... progressing .. with workers half-way to the leak. PTTEP Australasia's West Atlas oil rig has been leaking 400 barrels of oil ... kilometres off West Australia's northwest coast. PTTEP Australasia says the drill is expected to reach the leak ...

Article: WA: Govt doing all it can after "appalling" oil spill: Rudd
AAP General News (Australia);  August 31, 2009 ;     437 words ... ... miles by 70 nautical miles as it leaks from PTTEP Australasia's West Atlas oil rig. Oil, gas and condensate has been ... Petroleum Safety Authority. He said he expected PTTEP Australasia to be forthcoming with information. "Absolute ...