Read more The post Lake Peigneur: ... On that fateful day in 1980, a Texaco oil drilling crew set up their rig on the lake, searching for new sources of oil.

But Stephen finds much compelling in what happened at Lake Peigneur, and the kind of story “Eclipsed” is designed to explore. A placid, roughly 1,000-acre lake near New Iberia, Peigneur was a ...

The morning of November 21, 1980, started as an unremarkable one on Lake Peigneur - but after a freak accident, ... But a drilling rig, was also at work on the lake.

Lake Peigneur is located in Louisiana ... At the same time the oil workers were watching their $5 million drilling rig disappear into the lake, workers in the salt mines below the lake ...

Virlie Langlinais was at her Louisiana home on Lake Peigneur when she saw the swirling vortex. “It was like watching a science fiction movie with tug boats and rigs and everything going on ...

Derise’s property bumps up to Lake Peigneur, ... The lake — home to 4,000 residents — made headlines in 1980 when a drilling rig pushed ... The company can do some dredging work to make room ...

The oil rig company and drilling contractors had to pat $32 million to the salt mine, and $13 to a nearby plant nursery. Allan Wolf is an poet and young adult author who mostly tells stories of ...

The Lake Peigneur drilling disaster saw an oversight result in a dramatic reshaping of the Louisiana landscape. The resulting sinkhole swallowed up a drilling platform, several barges, trees, and ...

Authorities respond to an oil rig explosion in Lake Pontchartrain, off Kenner, La., on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. Matthew Hinton / The Advocate via AP Oct. 16, 2017, 12:06 AM EDT / Updated Oct. 16 ...

They also said unexplained bubbling has been documented at Lake Peigneur in recent years. Strange bubbling had been reported in the Bayou Corne area before the sinkhole developed there.