Have a look at http://www.mudinmyblood.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6104 for a very close encounter with the oil rig that burnt and sank in USA
Scary in the extreme
"Russian paper suggests 'nuclear explosion' could cap gulf oil geyser"
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/russian-paper-suggests-nuclear-explosion-cut-gulf-oil-geyser/
Sounds like a scary experience.
Also, Russians :D.