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      WASHINGTON (AP) - The agency that oversees offshore drilling
will investigate the fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.


      Thursday's fire came less than five months after the explosion
of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 people and spurred
the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history.


      This time no one was killed and the Coast Guard said no crude
was leaking.


      Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Regulation and Enforcement, says his agency will work
with the Coast Guard to investigate the fire. The oil platform is
owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy Inc.
      

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The agency that oversees offshore drilling
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