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Jul 15, 2026

Lake Pontchartrain Oil Platform Explosion & Maritime Burn-Injury Attorneys: Seven Crew Hospitalized with Burns and Blast Wounds, One Missing After a Natural Gas Storage Transfer Platform Erupts Two Miles Off Kenner in Jefferson Parish — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Admiralty Jurisdiction on Navigable Waters, We Pursue the Platform Operator, the Chemical Supplier and the Contractor Stack Behind the Blast, General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness and Jones Act Claims, Maintenance and Cure Rights That Attach Immediately Regardless of Fault, No Statutory Damage Caps Under Maritime Law, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Energy-Industry Claims Machine Values and Denies Burn and Blast Cases, We Move to Preserve the Fire Cause-and-Origin Debris, Cleaning Chemical Containers and Safety Data Sheets, Platform Maintenance Logs and Coast Guard Investigation File Before the Active Fire and Weathering Destroy the Evidence, the Louisiana Prescriptive Clock Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Kenner, Jefferson Parish: Lake Pontchartrain Oil Platform Explosion — Your Maritime Rights After the Fire If you are reading this from a hospital waiting room — or from a kitchen table where a chair is empty and a phone will not ring — we need you to understand one thing before anything else. The fire on Lake Pontchartrain was not just burning a platform. It was burning the evidence of what happened to your family. And while you sat in that waiting room, the company that owned that platform already had its lawyers on the phone. That is not paranoia. That is how these cases work. Within hours of an explosion, the platform operator’s insurance team is setting reserves, crafting narratives, and deciding which records to preserve and which to let disappear. The fire that was still burning on that Monday morning in October 2017 was consuming the physical evidence — the failed tank, the chemical containers, the ignition source — in real time. Every hour that passed without a formal preservation demand was an hour the defense was given for free. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore and maritime injury cases, and we are writing this for one person: the family member of a worker who was on that platform when the tank on the third floor blew, who is now either in a burn ICU or does not come home. This page is not a news recap. It is the law, the medicine,…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Wrongful Death: Two Workers Killed on a Shell Platform in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Investigating — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to OCSLA Claims, We Pursue Shell and the Corporate Parent Stack Behind Offshore Fatalities Where High-Pressure Equipment, H2S Exposure and Confined-Space Hazards Kill Workers Miles From Trauma Care, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Secure the Coast Guard Investigation Report, BSEE Incident Records, Platform Alarm Logs and SEMS Records Before Electronic Data Overwrites and Witness Memories Fade on the Crew-Rotation Cycle, OCSLA-Borrowed State Wrongful-Death and Survival Law with LHWCA Death Benefits Regardless of Fault, the Firm Has Recovered a $2M+ Maritime Settlement and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Shell Oil Platform Deaths in the Gulf of Mexico: What Your Family Needs to Know About Offshore Wrongful Death Claims You just got the worst phone call of your life. Someone on the other end told you there was an incident on a platform in the Gulf — that your loved one is gone. You may not even know what platform, what company, what happened, or what comes next. The helicopter that carried your loved one off the platform did not carry answers. The Coast Guard is investigating. A company representative has already called. And none of it makes sense yet. We are the trial team at Attorney911. We handle offshore injury and wrongful death cases, and we are writing this page for you — the person sitting at a kitchen table at three in the morning, staring at a phone, trying to understand what rights your family has when someone dies on an oil platform in federal waters. The answer is more complicated than any land-based case, because the law that governs the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer Continental Shelf is a web of overlapping federal statutes that most lawyers never touch. We are going to untangle that web for you, section by section, in plain language. What follows is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information we wish every family in your position had on the night it happened, because the deadlines in these cases are shorter than anyone expects and the evidence is already…

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Jul 15, 2026

Shell Auger Platform Lifeboat Drill Fatalities, Two Dead Offshore Louisiana — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime Wrongful-Death Claims Under DOHSA, the Jones Act, OCSLA & General Maritime Law, We Pursue Shell, the Lifeboat and Davit Manufacturers, and the Maintenance Contractors Behind the Lifeboat Launch System Failure, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Offshore Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Lifeboat, Davit System and Platform CCTV Before the 30-Day Overwrite Erases the Evidence, DOHSA Limits Death Recovery to Pecuniary Losses But Product Liability Against Equipment Manufacturers Can Recover What DOHSA Bars, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Settlements and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Offshore Lifeboat Drill Deaths: Your Rights Under Federal Maritime Law When a Safety Drill Turns Fatal Your husband, your father, your son went to work on a Sunday morning in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and did not come home. He was not killed by a blowout or a fire or a storm. He was killed during a mandatory safety drill — the very exercise the company ran to prove it could protect him. That is the cruelest part of what happened at the Shell Auger Tension Leg Platform, 214 miles south of New Orleans, and it is the fact that will sit in your chest for the rest of your life. He did everything the company asked. He followed the rules. And the rules killed him. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana offshore injury and wrongful death cases, working with local counsel in the Eastern District of Louisiana where the majority of Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf cases are filed. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means he learned early that the story is never what the company press release says it is. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, in the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like the families of the two men who…

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Jul 15, 2026

Deepwater Horizon Offshore Explosion & Blowout Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Gulf of Mexico Waters, 11 Workers Killed and 17 Injured, Four Critically Burned, When a Well Blowout During Cementing Overwhelmed Every Safety System 50 Miles Off the Louisiana Coast, We Pursue the Well Operators, Rig Owners and Cementing Contractors Under the Jones Act, the Death on the High Seas Act and the Maritime Unseaworthiness Doctrine, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Blowout Preventer Data, Cementing Records and Gas-Detection Logs Before They Are Lost on a Burning Rig, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2M+ in Maritime Injury Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Offshore Oil Rig Explosions: What Maritime Law Gives You After a Blowout The night a blowout turns a drilling rig into a pillar of flame, the first thing that fails is the well. The second thing that fails is the plan. And the third thing that fails — the thing nobody told you about — is the assumption that working 50 miles off the Louisiana coast means the same legal rules as working on land. They do not. Offshore workers in the Gulf of Mexico operate under a legal framework that is older, stranger, and in some critical ways more powerful than the workers’ compensation system that covers most American workplaces. But it is also a framework the companies understand far better than the workers do — and that gap in knowledge is the first thing the defense exploits. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle offshore and maritime injury cases in Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast. This page is the education we wish every offshore worker and every family of every offshore worker had before the company’s investigator arrived with a clipboard and a recorded-statement form. Everything here is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information the company is counting on you not having. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon — a mobile offshore drilling unit owned by Transocean Ltd. and under contract to BP — suffered a catastrophic blowout during cementing operations at the Macondo prospect, approximately…

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Jul 15, 2026

Five Killed in Offshore Oil Platform Fire & Maritime Wrongful Death — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime-JonesAct-National Offshore Cases, We Pursue the Platform Operators and Contractors Behind Process-Safety Failures and Inadequate Fire Suppression, Under the Jones Act, the Death on the High Seas Act and General Maritime Law, We Secure the Maintenance Records and Safety-Inspection Logs Before They Disappear, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and a $2M+ Maritime Settlement — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

National Offshore Platform Fire Deaths — Five Killed in Mexico Oil Rig Blaze: What Federal Maritime Law Says About Your Family’s Rights You are reading this at the worst moment of your life. Five people died on that platform. One of them was yours. The phone call came — from a coworker, from a company representative, from a consulate official — and the words are still settling into a place in your chest that hasn’t stopped aching since. You do not know what happened out there yet. You do not know who was at fault, what failed, what was ignored. You do know that someone who left for work is not coming home, and that a company whose name you may or may not know is already controlling the narrative, the evidence, and the timeline. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle maritime injury and wrongful-death cases, and this page exists for one reason: to give you — the spouse, the child, the parent, the sibling — the information the company hopes you never find. What law protects your family. What evidence is already disappearing. What the company is already doing. What your claim is actually worth. And what the deadline is — because in maritime death cases, the deadline is unforgiving and the proof dies faster than the deadline. This page is legal information, not legal advice, and it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Fire & Wrongful Death — Attorney911 and Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice for the Nohoch Alfa Platform, Cantarell Field, Gulf of Mexico Fire That Killed Two and Left One Missing, We Pursue the Platform Operators and the Contractors Behind the Blaze, $2M+ Maritime Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Catastrophes, We Move to Preserve the Fire Detection Logs and Gas Detection System Data Before the Platform’s Rotating Cycle Overwrites Them, We Investigate Pemex’s Documented Pattern of Prior Offshore Fires for Punitive Damages, Severe Burns Over One-Third of the Body Demand Investigation of Every US Nexus Under the Jones Act and General Maritime Law — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Nohoch Alfa Platform Fire: What Happened, What the Law Actually Says, and What Families Must Do Now You are reading this because someone you love was on the Nohoch Alfa platform on July 7, 2023, when fire tore through a Pemex installation in the Cantarell Field of the Gulf of Mexico. Two workers are dead. One is missing. At least one survivor was burned over more than a third of his body and flown to a hospital in Mexico City. You may be sitting in a waiting room, or at a kitchen table at 2 a.m., or holding a phone with a call you have not yet made. We are writing this for you — the person who needs to know, right now, what is true about the legal road ahead and what is not. The first thing you need to hear is also the hardest: where this fire happened changes everything about what legal remedies exist. The Nohoch Alfa platform sits in Mexican territorial waters, in the Bay of Campeche, operated by Petróleos Mexicanos — Pemex — Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company. That fact does not close every door. But it means the first question is not “how much is this case worth” — it is “which courthouse door is even open, and what do we have to prove to walk through it?” That investigation is the case. Everything else — the burns, the damages, the pattern of Pemex failures — only matters once we know where the case…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Explosion & Wrongful-Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Cases Like the Pemex Akal-B Platform Fire in the Cantarell Field, Southern Gulf of Mexico — a Gas-Pipeline Blast That Killed One Worker and Burned Thirteen in the Second Cantarell Platform Fire in Under a Year, We Pursue the Platform Operators and Contractor Companies Behind Offshore Explosions Under the Jones Act, OCSLA, the Death on the High Seas Act and General Maritime Law, We Secure the Gas-Detection Sensor Data and Pipeline-Integrity Records Before Platform Systems Overwrite the Digital Evidence, Second- and Third-Degree Burns, Life-Threatening Trauma and Fatal Injury, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims Including a $2M+ Maritime Settlement and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When an Offshore Platform Explodes: What the Akal-B Fire Teaches Every Gulf Oil Worker About Their Rights You are reading this because something terrible happened on the water. Maybe you were on the platform when the blast hit. Maybe you got the call at 2 a.m. that your husband, your brother, your son was airlifted from a rig with burns over half his body. Maybe you are sitting in a hospital corridor right now, smelling the antiseptic and the char, trying to understand how a Saturday afternoon turned into a helicopter flight to a trauma center. We are writing this for you — and for every worker who steps onto a steel deck in the Gulf of Mexico and deserves to know what the law actually says about what happens when that deck catches fire. On April 6, 2024, a Saturday afternoon explosion tore through the gas pipeline section of the Akal-B production platform, part of Petróleos Mexicanos’ Cantarell Field complex in the southern Gulf of Mexico, roughly 80 kilometers off the coast of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche. The fire was controlled within thirty minutes, but in that window one worker was killed and at least thirteen others were injured. Twenty-eight people were on that platform. Six of the victims — including the worker who died — were employees of the contractor COTER. Three worked for Diavaz. Five were direct employees of Pemex. They were all airlifted to an IMSS social-security hospital on Isla del Carmen. One Pemex employee was…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Wrongful Death on the Seafox Burj Jack-Up Rig in Qatar’s Al-Shaheen Oil Field: When a Subsea Contractor’s Sleep-Depriving Cabin Conditions Cause a Coworker’s Fatal Psychotic Break — Attorney911 Pursues the Offshore Contractors, Rig Owners, and Field Operators Behind the 10kg Ballast-Weight Bludgeoning of Robbie Robson, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Employers Minimize These Deaths as Non-Work-Related, We Move to Preserve the Alarm-PA System Logs, Cabin Manifests, and Complaint Records Before They Are Overwritten, the Qatari Court’s Own Psychiatric Finding Links the Working Conditions to the Violence, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Rig Itself Becomes the Weapon: Sleep Deprivation, Ignored Complaints, and a Death at Sea If you are reading this because someone you love went offshore and did not come back — or came back in a condition you cannot reconcile with the person who left — you already know the feeling the industry does not want you to name. Something about the way that rig was run made a death possible that should have been impossible. You may have seen the messages your loved one sent about the sleeping arrangements, the alarms, the exhaustion. You may have been told it was a random act, a freak event, one disturbed individual. Your instincts are telling you something different. Your instincts are correct. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We build wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases. This page is not about a case we are on; it is about what the law actually says when an offshore employer creates the conditions that produce violence, and what families need to know before the evidence disappears and the deadlines close. Everything here is written to one person: the one sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m., reading about a death on a rig 80 kilometers from land, trying to understand whether what happened was bad luck or a system that was built to fail. What happened on the Seafox Burj — a jack-up rig in Qatar’s Al-Shaheen oil field, 80 kilometers offshore in the Persian Gulf — is a case…

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Jul 15, 2026

Chevron BBLT Deepwater Platform Fire During Maintenance Shutdown Offshore Cabinda Angola — 17 Injured, 1 Missing: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Offshore Platform Fire Litigation, We Pursue the Operator and the Maintenance Contractors Behind the Shutdown Where Permit-to-Work Failures and Hydrocarbon Isolation Breaches Turned a Controlled Shutdown Into a 3 AM Fire, We Secure the Lockout/Tagout Records, Gas-Freeing Certificates and CCTV Footage Before the 14-Day Overwrite Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Maritime ($2M+ Recovered) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, API RP 75 Safety Management Standards the Operator Was Bound to Follow — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Chevron Angola Offshore Platform Fire During Maintenance: 17 Injured, 1 Missing — What Families Need to Know If you are reading this at 3 a.m. because someone you love was on the BBLT platform when the fire broke out on May 20, 2025 — or because you are waiting on word about the person who is still missing — you are in the worst hours of your life, and the company that ran that platform is already working to protect itself. That is not paranoia. That is how this works. Within hours of a catastrophic offshore fire, the operator has activated its emergency response protocols, notified its insurers, deployed its claims team, and begun shaping the narrative. CABGOC — the Chevron subsidiary that operates Block 14 — has said it is “collaborating with contractors to provide support to those affected and their families.” That sentence sounds compassionate. It is also the opening move of a liability defense, and the people who wrote it know more about what caused this fire than any family member will be told for weeks or months. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, building catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases against corporate defendants who have more lawyers than your family has members. Lupe Peña sat on the other side of this table for years — inside a national insurance-defense firm, in the rooms where adjusters and their software decide how to deny, delay, and devalue…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Rig Deaths & Maritime Catastrophic Injury: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime-JonesAct-National, We Pursue the Platform Operators and Drilling Contractors Behind Offshore Fatalities, the Jones Act and General Maritime Law Govern These Claims, the Death on the High Seas Act Applies When Fatalities Occur Beyond Territorial Waters, We Move to Secure the Maintenance Records and Safety-Audit Logs Before the Evidence Window Closes, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Offshore Rig Injury & Death: Your Rights Under Federal Maritime Law If someone you love was hurt or killed on an offshore rig, you are standing at a legal crossroads most people never know exists — and the road you pick in the first days will determine whether your family is taken care of or left fighting an insurance company alone for years. Federal maritime law, not the ordinary injury law of your state, governs what happens on the water and on the platforms beyond it. That law is older, different, and in some ways more powerful than anything a land-based case can offer. But it is also full of traps: deadlines that expire fast, evidence that vanishes on the rig, and an insurance machine that starts building its defense file the same day your family is still in shock. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore injury and accident cases from our Houston offices, in the heart of the Gulf Coast offshore industry. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you. Now he sits on your side of the table. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. trying to understand what happened to your family, here is what the law actually says, what the company is already doing, and what to do next.…

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