Re: your Sept. 29 article, “Rita may have hit oil rigs worst of all”:

This article, about the oil and gas platform failures caused by the recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, did not mention the failure of the Typhoon oil and natural gas platform that is owned by BHP Billiton and Chevron.

This platform, as with the proposed BHP Billiton Cabrillo Port liquefied natural gas floating terminal, is supposed to be disaster-proof. BHP Billiton’s platform broke free of its moorings and drifted more than 100 miles.