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Mumbai Offshore Platform Fire: What It Means for Offshore Workers Under US Maritime Law You are reading this because a fire tore through an offshore oil platform and ten people were hurt. Maybe you work on a rig yourself, and the news out of the Arabian Sea made you think about what would happen to you and your family if the same thing happened on your platform. Maybe someone you love was injured in a platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico, and you are sitting in a hospital hallway at 2 a.m. trying to understand what rights they have. We are glad you found this page, and we are going to tell you everything we know. First, the honest truth about this specific incident. The fire at the SHP Platform in the Mumbai High field occurred in Indian territorial waters, on a platform owned and operated by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, an Indian state-owned enterprise. Every claim arising from that fire is governed by Indian maritime law, Indian offshore petroleum regulations, and Indian labor and tort law. No United States court has jurisdiction over that incident. No American statute—the Jones Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, general maritime law of the United States—applies to it. If the injured workers or their families contacted an American law firm, the correct and honest answer would be that Indian maritime counsel is the right resource, not a US plaintiff firm. We would say so directly and help point them in…